With the Pilgrims to Mecca

About this eBook

Author

Sparroy, Wilfrid

Title

With the pilgrims to Mecca: The great pilgrimage of A.H. 1319; A.D. 1902

Original Publication

United Kingdom: John Lane,1905.

Credits

Turgut Dincer, Thomas Frost and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia

Subject

Mecca (Saudi Arabia)

Category

Text

eBook-No.

68124

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68124

Release Date

May 19, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.WITH THE PILGRIMS TO MECCA
2. 2.INTRODUCTION
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.ERRATA
6. 6.Part I A PERSIAN PILGRIM IN THE MAKING — I.—Message of the Prophet. — II.—Conditions of Pilgrimage. — III.—Forbidden Viands. — IV.—The Work of Purification. — V.—Prayers. — VI.—Aspects of Social Islám. — VII.—Story of the Muslim Moons. — VIII.— Persian Súfíism; and Persian Shiahism in Its Relation to the Persian Passion-Drama. — ( a ) Persian Súfíism. — (b) The Shiah Faith in its Relation to the Persian Passion Play.
7. 7.Part II THE STORY OF THE PILGRIMAGE — CHAPTER I LONDON TO JIDDAH
8. 8.CHAPTER II FROM JIDDAH TO MECCA
9. 9.CHAPTER III WITHIN THE HAREM—SOME REMARKS ON THE ORTHODOX SECTS OF ISLÁM
10. 10.CHAPTER IV COMPASSING OF THE KA’BAH
11. 11.CHAPTER V THE COURSE OF PERSEVERANCE — PLAN OF THE HAREM. An Explanation of the Frontispiece .
12. 12.CHAPTER VI SCENE IN AN EATING-HOUSE—VISIT TO THE KA’BAH
13. 13.CHAPTER VII ON THE ROAD TO ARAFAT
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII ON THE ROAD TO ARAFAT (Concluded)
15. 15.CHAPTER IX ARAFAT DAY: NIGHT [2]
16. 16.CHAPTER X ARAFAT DAY: DAYBREAK
17. 17.CHAPTER XI ARAFAT DAY: FORENOON AND AFTERNOON
18. 18.CHAPTER XII THE DAY OF VICTIMS: FROM SUNDOWN TO SUNSET. THE DAYS OF DRYING FLESH.
19. 19.Part III MECCAN SCENES AND SKETCHES — CHAPTER I THE MECCAN BAZAARS
20. 20.CHAPTER II THE TALISMAN-MONGER
21. 21.CHAPTER III SEYYID ’ALÍ’S STORY OF HIS REDEMPTION
22. 22.CHAPTER IV HEALING BY FAITH
23. 23.APPENDIX By WILFRID SPARROY
24. 24.INDEX

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