AN INSTALLMENT FROM SIMERG’S MUST READ SERIES ABOUT NASER-E KHOSRAW’S MEMORABLE JOURNEY TO FATIMID EGYPT
“….The tallest mountain near Mecca is Abu Qubays, which is round like a dome, so that if you shoot an arrow from the foot of the mountain it reaches its top.…Having come into the city, you enter the Haram Mosque, approach the Ka’ba, and circumambulate….. always keeping the Ka‘ba to your left [shoulder]. Then you go to the corner containing the Black Stone, kiss it, and pass on….”
Please click: Naser-e Khosraw’s Pilgrimages to Mecca
(Links to all series articles provided below)
A bird’s-eye view of the Ka’ba crowded with pilgrims. The photo is from the archives of the US Library of Congress and was created by American Colony (Jerusalem), Photo Dept., in 1910. Please click for article by Naser-e Khosraw.
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Complete series by Michael Wolfe:
Part I – Introduction and Naser-e Khosraw Commences the Journey
Part II – Naser-e Khosraw in Fatimid Cairo
Part III – Naser-e Khosraw’s Pilgrimages to Mecca
Part IV – Naser-e Khosraw’s Dangerous Homeward Journey
Thank you Simerg about these additional materials about Nasir Khusraw’s travel and Hajj. It adds more and more knowledge and revives the memory about this significant Persian poet and philosopher and his seven years of travel in the area of Mecca, Fatimid Egypt as well as other areas of the Middlle East.
A very detailed and informative post to let us all know about Naser-e Khusraw, his risky journey, and about the Hajj itself – all received the day before Eid al-Adha. Thank you so much Malik.