The pilgrimage of Ahmad, son of the Little Bird of Paradise : an account of a 19th century pilgrimage from Mauritania to Mecca / translated and edited by H.T. Norris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wādānī, Aḥmad ibn Ṭuwayr al-Jannah, -1849, author.

Contributor:

Norris, H. T., translator, editor, writer of supplementary textual content.

Standardized Title:

Riḥlat al-muná wa-al-minnah. English

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Travelers' writings, Arabic.

Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Africa, North--Description and travel.

Africa, North.

North Africa.

Wādānī, Aḥmad ibn Ṭuwayr al-Jannah, -1849--Travel.

Wādānī, Aḥmad ibn Ṭuwayr al-Jannah.

Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages--Saudi Arabia--Mecca.

Saudi Arabia--Mecca.

Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages--Saudi Arabia--Medina.

Travelers' writings, Arabic--Mauritania--Translations into English.

Mauritania.

Saudi Arabia--Medina.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xxi, 138 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Distribution:

Forest Grove, Oregon : International Scholarly Book Services.

Place of Publication:

Warminster, England : Aris & Phillips Ltd., [1977]

Language Note:

In English.

Contents:

By caravan north to the sea

Under sail through Mediterranean storms

Passage through Egypt

Medina 'the Illumined' and Mecca 'honoured by God'

Return through Egypt to Tripoli

The tales of the army of the companions and the men of Qayrawan

Days in Tunis the verdant

The hour of the Lord

Tales from Tunis

With the French in Algiers

With the English in Gibraltar

Return to Morocco

Poems and tales from Fez

The founding of Ahmad's Retreat and return to Wadan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0856680559

9780856680557

0856680575

9780856680571

OCLC:

4193688