The Road To Mecca | Allama Muhammad Asad

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About the book:
The Road To Mecca is now surprisingly little-known, but remains one of the twentieth century's great accounts of spiritual transformation. In no way a full story of Asad's life, it covers only the years he spent in Arabia as a young man, and specifically a 23-day journey to Mecca in the summer of 1932. Much more than a travelogue or memoir, along the way Asad recounts the story of his initial attraction to Islam and his final marriage to the faith. The beauty of his writing means that few readers will come away from this book without a changed perception of the religion, and this was his purpose in writing it.

Asad was a precociously gifted young correspondent for the prestigious Frankfurter Zeitung newspaper, and made hundreds of trips within Arabia, Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. His adventures are alone enough reason to get the book, but in this commentary we focus more on the author's rationale for his conversion and the thoughts that led to his Muslim beliefs.

The Road To Mecca | Muhammad Asad