Futuh al-Haramayn (a Handbook for Pilgrims to Mecca and Medina) is considered the first Islamic guidebook for pilgrimage. It was written by Muhi al-Din Lari and completed in India in 1505–6. The book was dedicated to Muzaffar ibn Mahmudshah, the ruler of Gujarat. No early illustrated Indian copies are known, but later in the 16th century it was widely copied in Ottoman Turkey. The book describes the full rituals of the Hajj in order, and describes the religious sites one can visit.
Manuscripts More than twenty manuscripts of the Futuh are known to exist. InstitutionInventory numberOriginDateSizeNotesChester Beatty LibraryPer 192Iran1525-1550National Museum, New Delhi55.73/1357Gujarat1548Topkapı Saray MuseumR. 916circa 1550Topkapı Saray MuseumR. 917Turkeycirca 1550Metropolitan Museum of Art32.131Turkeymid 16th centuryMetropolitan Museum of Art2009.343Bukhara16th centuryKhalili Collection of Hajj and the Arts of PilgrimageMSS 1038Mecca158242 foliosChester Beatty LibraryPer 245Mecca1595Chester Beatty LibraryPer 249Meccalate 16th centuryRoyal Ontario Museum967.270Meccaearly 17th centuryBibliothèque nationale de FrancePersan 237Meccaundated, attributed to early 17th centuryBritish LibraryOr 343Iran17th century41 foliosMetropolitan Museum of Art2008.251India1678Bibliothèque nationale de FranceSP 134018th century20 foliosKhalili Collection of Hajj and the Arts of PilgrimageMSS 1274India18th – early 19th century40 foliosLeiden University LibraryOr. 14.620undated45 folios
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