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One Thousand Roads To Mecca
''One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten Centuries of Travelers Writing about the Muslim Pilgrimage'' is a collection of travel journals edited by Michael Wolfe and published in 1999. Covering over 20 accounts made over 10 centuries, this work shows many sides of the Hajj, the Pilgrimage to Mecca required of every able Muslim. Included are accounts of Naser-e Khosraw, Ibn Jubayr, Ibn Battuta and ultimately the pilgrimage of Michael Wolfe himself. Contributors *Naser-e Khosraw, Persia, 1050 *Ibn Jubayr, Spain, 1183-84 *Ibn Battuta, Morocco, 1326 *Ludovico di Varthema, Bologna, 1503 *A Pilgrim with No Name, Italy, 1575 *Joseph Pitts (author), Joseph Pitts, England, 1685 *Ali Bey al-Abbasi, Spain, 1807 *John Lewis Burckhardt, Switzerland, 1814 *Sir Richard Burton, Great Britain, 1953 *Her Highness Sikandar, the Begum of Bhopal, India, 1864 *John F. Keane, Anglo-India, 1877-78 *Mohammad Hosayn Farahani, Persia, 1885-86 *Arthur J. B. Wavell, Anglo-Africa, 1908 *Eldon Rutter, Great Britai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thousand
1000 or one thousand is the natural number following 999 and preceding 1001. In most English-speaking countries, it can be written with or without a comma or sometimes a period separating the thousands digit: 1,000. A group of one thousand things is sometimes known, from Ancient Greek, as a chiliad. A period of one thousand years may be known as a chiliad or, more often from Latin, as a millennium. The number 1000 is also sometimes described as a short thousand in medieval contexts where it is necessary to distinguish the Germanic concept of 1200 as a long thousand. Notation * The decimal representation for one thousand is ** 1000—a one followed by three zeros, in the general notation ; ** 1 × 103—in engineering notation, which for this number coincides with : ** 1 × 103 exactly—in scientific normalized exponential notation ; ** 1 E+3 exactly—in scientific E notation. * The SI prefix for a thousand units is "kilo-", abbreviated to "k"—for instance, a kilog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |