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Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Fasts and feasts --- Fasts and feasts --- Pèlerins et pèlerinages musulmans --- Fêtes religieuses --- Fêtes religieuses --- Islam. --- Islam

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The British explorer Sir Richard F. Burton (1821-90) was a colourful and often controversial character. A talented linguist and keen ethnologist, he worked in India during the 1840s as an interpreter and intelligence officer for General Sir Charles Napier, and published several books about his experiences in 1851-2. He first gained celebrity, however, for his adventurous 1853 trip to Mecca, under the disguise of a pilgrim, which is described in this lively three-volume publication (1855-6). Few Europeans had ever visited the Muslim holy places; one of them was John Lewis Burckhardt, whose 1829 account is also reissued in this series. Volume 2 of Burton's book vividly describes the heat and dangers of the journey to Medina, the behaviour and conversation of the pilgrims from many different tribes and nations, and the mosques, tombs and other sights of the bustling city, complete with traders and beggars.

Islam. --- Arabian Peninsula --- Medina (Saudi Arabia) --- Mecca (Saudi Arabia) --- Description and travel. --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Makkah (Saudi Arabia) --- Mekka (Saudi Arabia) --- Umm al-Qurá (Saudi Arabia) --- Mecque (Saudi Arabia) --- Makka (Saudi Arabia) --- Macoraba (Saudi Arabia) --- Makkah al-Mukarramah (Saudi Arabia) --- Meca (Saudi Arabia) --- Madīnah (Saudi Arabia) --- Medinat an Nabi (Saudi Arabia) --- Medinat Rasul Allah (Saudi Arabia) --- Médine (Saudi Arabia) --- Madīnah al-Munawwarah (Saudi Arabia) --- Ṭābah (Saudi Arabia) --- Taiba (Saudi Arabia) --- Ṭaybah (Saudi Arabia) --- Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Burton, Richard Francis, --- Travel --- Hadj --- Hajj --- Mecca, Pilgrimage to --- Pillars of Islam --- B., F., --- Baker, Frank, --- Burṭan, Ār. EF., --- Burton, R. F. --- Burton, Richard, --- Burton, Richard F. --- F. B., --- Hâjî Abdû al-Yazdi, --- Hâjî Abdû ĕl-Yezdî, --- Burton, Richard Francis --- Burton, Richard