The Road To Mecca
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This book is an account of the author’s adventurous journey in the Arab world, and about his ‘home-coming’ to Islam. This book is more than an autobiography, which the Times Literary Supplement calls a “narrative of great power and beauty”.
This book is an account of the author's adventurous journey in the Arab world, and about his ‘home-coming' to Islam. This book is more than an autobiography, which the Times Literary Supplement calls a "narrative of great power and beauty". A unique book. Its haunting overtones will linger in the memory -- New York Hearld Tribune A very rare and powerful book, raised, completely above the ordinary by its candor and intelligence... -- New York Post About the Author Muhammad Asad, born Leopard Weiss in the Polish city of Lvov in 1900, was the grandson of an orthodox Rabbi. By this early twenties he could write and read German, Franch and Polish languages. He took to journalism and travelled Middle East as the correspondent of 'Franfurter Zeitung' of Germany. After his conversion to Islam, he again travelled and worked throughout the Muslim world, including Arabia, Iran, Jordan, North Africa and Pakistan, In 1953 he was appointed as Pakistan's plenipotentiary to the United Nations. He moved to Morocco where he completed his magnum opus, the 'Message of the Qur'an.' He later settled in Lisbon where he died on 20th February 1992. Asad's other works include 'Islam at the Crossroads', Principles of State and Government in Islam', and 'Sahih Bukhari: Early Years of Islam.'
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