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Triumphant pilgrimage : an English Muslim's journey from Sarawak to Mecca

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Description: Rutter was a prolific British travel writer and novelist who lived part of his life in the British colony of North Borneo, now part of Malaysia. He wrote about the life of David Chale, pseudonym of an officer in the colony, who asked him to write about Chale's conversion to Islam, his marriage to a Malaysian Muslim woman, and their pilgrimage to Mecca. Rutter conducted extensive interviews with Chale and his wife Munirah, and tried to narrate the story of the pilgrimage from Chale's perspective, though his own editorial voice is quite present. The book contains a photograph each of Chale and Munirah as well as a map of the Arabian Peninsula.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1937]
Call number: 626464
Creator: Rutter, Owen (1889-1944)

Christians at Mecca

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Christians at Mecca is a collection of narratives summarizing the journeys undertaken by 16 European travelers to the Muslim holy city, starting with Ludovico di Varthema, who visited in 1503, and ending with Jules Gervais-Courtellemont, who visited in 1894. The list also includes Vincent Le Blanc (1568), Johann Wild (1607), Joseph Pitts (1680), Domingo Badia y Leblich (also called Ali Bey, 1807), Ulrich Jasper Seetzen (1809-10), Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1814-15), Giovanni Finati (1814), Léon Roches (1841-42), Georg August Wallin (1845), Sir Richard Burton (1853), Heinrich, Freiherr von Maltzan (1860), Herman Bicknell (1862), John Fryer Keane (1877-78), and Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1885). Accounts of the exploration of Arabia and Islam's "forbidden cities" became a genre that aroused considerable interest in Europe, especially during the 19th century. Christians at Mecca is a particularly useful volume, in that it summarizes and compiles nearly all such accounts in one work. The author, Augustus Ralli, wrote in the brief preface that he intended to "give a narrative of each pilgrim's adventures, and a summary of his observation of the people of Mecca and the condition of the city." Little is known about Ralli. It is unclear if he was related to the London-based Ralli Brothers, a successful Victorian-era merchant family of Greek origins. A scholar by the same name was born in London in 1875 and died in Bath in southwest England in 1954 and is thought to have written a number of books including Guide to Carlyle and A History of Shakespearian Criticism.

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Pilgrimage Play, Hollywood, Cal

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Image of the site of the Pilgrimage Play which used to have a theater known as the Pilgrimage Play theater (the present-day John Anson Ford Theater), in Hollywood, California.

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Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to al-Madinah & Meccah

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Posing as a wandering dervish, Burton gained admittance to the holy Kaabah and to the tomb of the prophet at Medina and participated in all the rituals of the Hadj (pilgrimage). A treasury of material on Arab life, beliefs, manners and morals, and much more. Volume One starts with the Preface to the Memorial Edition by his wife, Isabel Burton.

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Pilgrimage Play Association

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Approx. 45 items: bank books and check books for Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles, assigned to H.E. Downing as trustee for Harry Chandler and M.R. Clarke ; canceled checks on same bank ; legal documents of the estates of Erskine M. Ross ; 3-pp. "Agreement releasing and satisfying certain indebtedness," involving Marie R. Clark, Harry Chandler, and Pilgrimage Play Association ; more.

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Pilgrimage : images from Manzanar : essays and photographs

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The photographs are divided into 4 sections with 20 plates as follows: The Land: East of 395 [plate 1]; Blair's Creek (near Watchtower 6) [plate 3]. The Place: Police Post (Main Entrance) [plate 4]; Caucasian Quarters [plate 5]; Airport Area [plate 6]; Pleasure Garden, Block 34 (Merrit Park) [plate 7]; Hospital Area [plate 8]; Entrance to Cemetery Area [plate 9]; Tower of Memory [plate 10]. The Pilgrimage (April 29, 1989): Site Tour, Children's Village [plate 11]; Christian Prayers [plate 12]; Buddhist Ritual [plate 13]; Sue Kunitomi Embrey [plate 14]; Memorial Procession [plate 15]; George Kriiyama [plate 16]; Tanko Bushi (Coal Miner's Dance) [plate 17]. The Other Camps: Topaz, Utah [plate 18]; Minidoka, Idaho [plate 19]; Heart Mountain, Wyoming [plate 20].

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Ninety-two days : the account of a tropical journey through British Guiana and part of Brazil

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The account of a tropical journey through British Guiana and part of Brazil.

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