photography by Ali Kazuyoshi Nomachi ; text by Seyyed Hossein Nasr.
Rutland, Vermont :
Tuttle Publishing,
2013.
1 online resource (201 pages) :
illustrations, maps
Cover; Copyright; Contents; The Holiest Cities of Islam; Mecca the Blessed; Stages in the Hajj Pilgrimage; Medina the Radiant; The Arabian Peninsula; Glossary; Back Cover.
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During the season of Ramadan, when the first revelation of the Qur'an is commemorated, more than a million visitors journey to Mecca's Great Mosque. Despite Islam's position as a powerful religion, boasting one quarter of the world's population as its followers, many aspects of Muslim thought and belief remain an enigma to non-Muslims-until now. While the cities of Mecca and Medina are restricted to Muslims, and photographing the sites requires special-and rarely given-permission from the Saudi Arabian authorities, Mecca the Blessed, Medina the Radiant is an unprecedented ex.
Mecca the Blessed, Medina the Radiant.
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Islam, Pictorial works.
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages-- Saudi Arabia, Pictorial works.