One Thousand Roads to Mecca

One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten Centuries of Travelers Writing about the Muslim Pilgrimage is a collection of travel journals edited by Michael Wolfe and published in 1999. Covering over 20 accounts made over 10 centuries, this work shows many sides of the Hajj, the Pilgrimage to Mecca required of every able Muslim.

Included are accounts of Naser-e Khosraw, Ibn Jubayr, Ibn Battuta and ultimately the pilgrimage of Michael Wolfe himself.

Contributors Naser-e Khosraw, Persia, 1050 Ibn Jubayr, Spain, 1183–84 Ibn Battuta, Morocco, 1326 Ludovico di Varthema, Bologna, 1503 A Pilgrim with No Name, Italy, 1575 Joseph Pitts, England, 1685 Ali Bey al-Abbasi, Spain, 1807 John Lewis Burckhardt, Switzerland, 1814 Sir Richard Burton, Great Britain, 1953 Her Highness Sikandar, the Begum of Bhopal, India, 1864 John F. Keane, Anglo-India, 1877–78 Mohammad Hosayn Farahani, Persia, 1885–86 Arthur J. B. Wavell, Anglo-Africa, 1908 Eldon Rutter, Great Britain, 1925 Winifred Stegar, Australia, 1927 Muhammad Asad, Galicia, 1927 Harry St. John Philby, Great Britain, 1931 Lady Evelyn Cobbold, Great Britain, 1933 Hamza Bogary, Mecca, 1947 Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Iran, 1964 Malcolm X, United States, 1964 Saida Miller Khalifa, Great Britain, 1970 Michael Wolfe, United States, 1990

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