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The Hadj: An American's Pilgrimage to Mecca.(Brief Article)

Publishers Weekly

| June 28, 1993 | (Hide copyright information)Copyright

An American's Pilgrimsge to Mecca Michael Wolfe. Atlantic, $21 (352p) ISBN 0-87113-518-3

In an engaging and instructive account of his experiences as a Muslim pilgrim to Mecca, California freelance writer, editor and publisher Wolfe lifts the veil for Western readers on this ancient and sacred duty of Islam, simultaneously presenting a lively and sympathetic picture of Muslims. Wolfe, a self-described "mongrel" son of a Christian mother and a Jewish father, says he wanted not to "trade in" his culture in his recent conversion to Islam, but to find "access to new meanings" and "an escape route from the isolating …

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