Dr Martin Lings, a writer and scholar revered all over the world, performed the Hajj, or pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in 1948. Using unique archive material, he recollects his experiences along with his insight into its historical background. The original beauty and simplicity of the Hajj is brought to the viewer through the sheer presence and eloquence of Lings' narrative.
Ahmad Al Shugairi takes you behind the scenes and explores the Haram al-Sharif in Mecca, one of Islam's holiest sites and the direction in which
Muslim pray five times a day.
In the early 1920s Leopold Weiss, a Viennese Jew, alienated by the materialism and spiritual emptiness of the West, travelled to the Middle East, visiting Jerusalem, Egypt, the Transjordan and Saudi Arabia. After studying the Koran, he left his Jewish roots behind, converted to Islam and changed ...
The Hajj exhibition, held at the Institut du Monde Arab Paris, presented the pilgrimage to Mecca in its various facets and historical development. Individual mystical experience, religious meditation, source of artistic inspiration and cross-cultural exchanges, these multiple facets of the pilgri...
