The Hadj: An American's Pilgrimage to Mecca

With this impassioned memoir, an American convert to Islam “lifts the veil on this ancient and sacred duty” of making a pilgrimage to Mecca (Publishers Weekly).

The hadj, or sacred journey, is the pilgrimage to Mecca that all Muslims are enjoined to make once in their lifetimes.

One of the world’ s oldest religious rites, the hadj has continued without break for fourteen centuries.

It is, like most things Islamic, shrouded in mystery for Westerners.