This gorgeously repackaged international bestseller recounts the spectacular trials of Paulo Coelho and his mysterious mentor, Petrus, as they make their journey of discovery across Spain--on a legendary road that has been traveled by ...

This volume pays attention to the diverse aspects of the Hajj, as lived every year by hundreds of millions of Muslims worldwide.

Langland covers all aspects of political and theological debate, and echoing common sentiments in its satire of the corrupt church, especially the Friars.

This collection of first hand accounts of travellers on Muslim pilgramages provides a 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.

This book is written for the people who are not professional historians in order to introduce them to late medieval Germany, to German scholarship, and to a process of thinking about history.

This warm anecdotal guide gives legends and traditions of both the popular sites of Rome as well as little-known places of historical significance.

Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in Ancient Greece provides a detailed analysis of pilgrimage, which is comprehensive and accessible to both the specialist and those interested in the Ancient Greek world.

Ultimately, this is an investigation of the Pakistani Hindu community's beliefs and practices at their largest place of worship in the Islamic Republic today--a topic of increasing importance to Pakistan's contemporary society.

Traveling two and a half months and one thousand miles along the ancient route through southern France and northern Spain, Conrad Rudolph made the passage to the holy site of Santiago de Compostela, one of the most important modern-day ...