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Among the duties God imposes upon every Muslim capable of doing so is a pilgrimage to the holy places in and around Mecca in Arabia. Not only is it a religious ritual filled with blessings for the millions who make the journey annually, but it is also a social, political, and commercial experience that for centuries has set in motion a flood of travelers across the world's continents. Whatever its outcome--spiritual enrichment, cultural exchange, financial gain or ruin--the road to Mecca has long been an exhilarating human adventure. By collecting the firsthand accounts of these travelers and shaping their experiences into a richly detailed narrative, F. E. Peters here provides an unparalleled literary history of the central ritual of Islam from its remote pre-Islamic origins to the end of the Hashimite Kingdom of the Hijaz in 1926.

Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Saudi Arabia. --- Mecca --- History. --- Abbasids. --- Abd al-Muttalib. --- Abraham. --- Abu Amir ibn Sayfi. --- Aqaba (town). --- Arab Revolt. --- Baghdad. --- Baladhuri. --- Batanuni. --- Britain, British. --- Burayda. --- Cairo. --- Camel brokers. --- Christians. --- Circumcision. --- Crusaders. --- Damascus. --- Darb Zubayda. --- Darfur. --- Dinet, Edouard. --- Duguet, Firmin. --- East India Company. --- Enver Pasha. --- Evliya Chelebi. --- Fairs. --- Faysal ibn Husayn. --- Gabriel, Angel. --- Ghazali. --- Gibbon, Edward. --- Hadiyya. --- Hadramawt. --- Hagar. --- Hajjis. --- Haram. --- Hashimites. --- Hira, Mount. --- Ibn Abbas. --- Ibn Jubayr. --- Ihram. --- Jabal Shammar. --- Jerusalem. --- Jesus. --- Jurda. --- Karak. --- Karbala. --- Khulays. --- Kufa. --- Lajjun. --- Mahdi, Caliph. --- Majanna. --- Marwa. --- Massawa. --- Medina. --- Mecca (Saudi Arabia)