The Holy Cities of Arabia
$139.55
- Hardcover
592 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2015
Summary
FEW BRITISH EXPLORERS IN ARABIA have produced books whose importance as travelogues is trans-cended by their literary quality. One such is The Holy Cities of Arabia, published to critical acclaim in 1928, with its author hailed as a worthy successor to Burckhardt, Burton and Doughty.Unrivalled among works by Western travellers to Islam’s holy cities, this account of a pilgrimage to Makkah in 1925–26 is made all the more remark-able by its author’s timing. In 1925 Abd al-Aziz Ibn Saud brought …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780992980825 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0992980828 |
| Author: | Eldon Rutter |
| Publisher: | Medina Publishing Ltd |
| Imprint: | Arabian Publishing Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 592 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2015 |
| Weight: | 1.37kg |
| Dimensions: | 246mm x 171mm |
About The Author
Eldon Rutter
Born in London in 1894, Rutter’s first taste of the Muslim world came during the First World War, when he served as a trooper at Gallipoli and in Egypt and Palestine. Having converted to Islam in Malaya, he spent 1924–25 in Egypt preparing for the Hajj, immersing himself in Muslim life, law and history and becoming so fluent in Arabic that he was able to pass himself off as a learned Syrian. His year-long sojourn in Makkah and the Hijaz was longer than that of any previous Western visitor. Soon after the publication of The Holy Cities of Arabia in 1928, he made two more Middle Eastern journeys. After the Second World War he lived a peripatetic life around Europe and was last heard of in 1956. To this day it is not known how, when or where he died.
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