Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah

by

Captain Sir Richard F. Burton, K.C.M.G., F.R.G.S., &c., &c., &c.

Edited by his wife, Isabel Burton.

“Our notions of Mecca must be drawn from the Arabians; as no unbeliever is permitted to enter the city, our travellers are silent.” — Gibbon, chap. 50.

Memorial Edition.

Dark and the Desert and Destriers me ken,
And the Glaive and the Joust, and Paper and Pen.
— Al-Mutanabbi

Table of Contents

    Part I — AL-MISR

  1. TO ALEXANDRIA.
  2. I LEAVE ALEXANDRIA.
  3. THE NILE STEAMBOAT-THE “LITTLE ASTHMATIC.”
  4. LIFE IN THE WAKALAH.
  5. THE RAMAZAN.
  6. THE MOSQUE.
  7. PREPARATIONS TO QUIT CAIRO.
  8. FROM CAIRO TO SUEZ.
  9. SUEZ.
  10. THE PILGRIM SHIP.
  11. TO YAMBU’.
  12. THE HALT AT YAMBU’.
  13. FROM YAMBU’ TO BIR ABBAS.
  14. FROM BIR ABBAS TO AL-MADINAH.

    15. Part II — AL-MADINAH

  15. THROUGH THE SUBURB OF AL-MADINAH TO HAMID’S HOUSE.
  16. A VISIT TO THE PROPHET’S TOMB.
  17. AN ESSAY TOWARDS THE HISTORY OF THE PROPHET’S MOSQUE.
  18. AL-MADINAH.
  19. A RIDE TO THE MOSQUE OF KUBA.
  20. THE VISITATION OF HAMZAH’S TOMB.
  21. THE PEOPLE OF AL-MADINAH.
  22. A VISIT TO THE SAINTS’ CEMETERY.
  23. THE DAMASCUS CARAVAN.
  24. FROM AL-MADINAH TO AL-SUWAYRKIYAH.
  25. THE BADAWIN OF AL-HIJAZ.
  26. FROM AL-SUWAYRKIYAH TO MECCAH.

    27. Part III — MECCAH

  27. THE FIRST VISIT TO THE HOUSE OF ALLAH.
  28. THE CEREMONIES OF THE YAUM AL-TARWIYAH, OR THE FIRST DAY.
  29. THE CEREMONIES OF THE YAUM ARAFAT, OR THE SECOND DAY.
  30. THE CEREMONIES OF THE YAUM NAHR, OR THE THIRD DAY.
  31. THE THREE DAYS OF DRYING FLESH.
  32. LIFE AT MECCAH, AND UMRAH, OR THE LITTLE PILGRIMAGE.
  33. PLACES OF PIOUS VISITATION AT MECCAH.
  34. TO JEDDAH.

Appendices

  1. OF HAJJ, OR PILGRIMAGE.
  2. THE BAYT ULLAH.
  3. SPECIMEN OF A MURSHID’S DIPLOMA, IN THE KADIRI ORDER OF THE MYSTIC CRAFT AL-TASAWWUF.
  4. THE NAVIGATION AND VOYAGES OF LUDOVICUS VERTOMANNUS, GENTLEMAN OF ROME. A.D. 1503.
  5. THE PILGRIMAGE OF JOSEPH PITTS TO MECCAH AND AL-MADINAH.—A.D. 1680
  6. GIOVANNI FINATI.
  7. NOTES ON MY JOURNEY BY A. SPRENGER.
  8. THE MECCAH PILGRIMAGE.

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