Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah: Volumes 1 & 2

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage toAl-Madinah and Meccah......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 2
PREFACE TO THE MEMORIAL EDITION.......Page 4
PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION.......Page 6
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.......Page 10
CHAPTER I.TO ALEXANDRIA.......Page 13
CHAPTER II.I LEAVE ALEXANDRIA.......Page 22
CHAPTER III.THE NILE STEAMBOAT — THE “LITTLE ASTHMATIC.”......Page 30
CHAPTER IV.LIFE IN THE WAKALAH.......Page 38
CHAPTER V.THE RAMAZAN.......Page 57
CHAPTER VI.THE MOSQUE.......Page 67
CHAPTER VII.PREPARATIONS TO QUIT CAIRO.......Page 82
CHAPTER VIII.FROM CAIRO TO SUEZ.......Page 97
CHAPTER IX.SUEZ.......Page 109
CHAPTER X.THE PILGRIM SHIP.......Page 124
CHAPTER XI.TO YAMBU’.......Page 136
CHAPTER XII.THE HALT AT YAMBU’.......Page 146
CHAPTER XIII.FROM YAMBU’ TO BIR ABBAS.......Page 157
CHAPTER XIV.FROM BIR ABBAS TO AL-MADINAH.......Page 169
CHAPTER XV.THROUGH THE SUBURB OF AL-MADINAH TO HAMID’S HOUSE.......Page 179
CHAPTER XVI.A VISIT TO THE PROPHET’S TOMB.......Page 190
CHAPTER XVII.AN ESSAY TOWARDS THE HISTORY OF THE PROPHET’S MOSQUE.......Page 214
CHAPTER XVIII.AL-MADINAH.......Page 234
CHAPTER XIX.A RIDE TO THE MOSQUE OF KUBA.......Page 247
CHAPTER XX.THE VISITATION OF HAMZAH’S TOMB.......Page 258
CHAPTER XXI.THE PEOPLE OF AL-MADINAH.......Page 270
CHAPTER XXII.A VISIT TO THE SAINTS’ CEMETERY.......Page 286
CHAPTER XXIII.THE DAMASCUS CARAVAN.......Page 300
CHAPTER XXIV.FROM AL-MADINAH TO AL-SUWAYRKIYAH.......Page 305
CHAPTER XXV.THE BADAWIN OF AL-HIJAZ.......Page 316
CHAPTER XXVI.FROM AL-SUWAYRKIYAH TO MECCAH.......Page 346
CHAPTER XXVII.THE FIRST VISIT TO THE HOUSE OF ALLAH.......Page 364
CHAPTER XXVIII.THE CEREMONIES OF THE YAUM AL-TARWIYAH, OR THE FIRST DAY.......Page 375
CHAPTER XXIX.THE CEREMONIES OF THE YAUM ARAFAT, OR THE SECOND DAY.......Page 384
CHAPTER XXX.THE CEREMONIES OF THE YAUM NAHR, OR THE THIRD DAY.......Page 390
CHAPTER XXXI.THE THREE DAYS OF DRYING FLESH.......Page 400
CHAPTER XXXII.LIFE AT MECCAH, AND UMRAH, OR THE LITTLE PILGRIMAGE.......Page 405
CHAPTER XXXIII.PLACES OF PIOUS VISITATION AT MECCAH.......Page 417
CHAPTER XXXIV.TO JEDDAH.......Page 424
APPENDIX I.OF HAJJ, OR PILGRIMAGE.......Page 434
APPENDIX II.THE BAYT ULLAH.......Page 447
APPENDIX III.1SPECIMEN OF A MURSHID’S DIPLOMA, IN THE KADIRI ORDER OF THE MYSTICCRAFT AL-TASAWWUF.......Page 467
APPENDIX IV.THE NAVIGATION AND VOYAGES OF LUDOVICUS VERTOMANNUS, GENTLEMAN OFROME. A.D. 1503.......Page 471
APPENDIX V.THE PILGRIMAGE OF JOSEPH PITTS TO MECCAH AND AL-MADINAH.—A.D. 1680......Page 485
APPENDIX VI.GIOVANNI FINATI.......Page 503
APPENDIX VII.NOTES ON MY JOURNEY BY A. SPRENGER.......Page 511
APPENDIX VIII.THE MECCAH PILGRIMAGE.......Page 515