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" Mecca the blessed, Medina the radiant : "
photography by Ali Kazuyoshi Nomachi ; text by Seyyed Hossein Nasr.
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BL
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1092115
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bc101368
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English
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| Main Entry
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Nasr, Seyyed Hossein.
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| Title & Author
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Mecca the blessed, Medina the radiant : : the holiest cities of Islam /\ photography by Ali Kazuyoshi Nomachi ; text by Seyyed Hossein Nasr.
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Rutland, Vermont :: Tuttle Publishing,, 2013.
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1 online resource (201 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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9781462913657
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: 1462913652
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9780804843829
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| Contents
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Cover; Copyright; Contents; The Holiest Cities of Islam; Mecca the Blessed; Stages in the Hajj Pilgrimage; Medina the Radiant; The Arabian Peninsula; Glossary; Back Cover.
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During the season of Ramadan, when the first revelation of the Qur'an is commemorated, more than a million visitors journey to Mecca's Great Mosque. Despite Islam's position as a powerful religion, boasting one quarter of the world's population as its followers, many aspects of Muslim thought and belief remain an enigma to non-Muslims-until now. While the cities of Mecca and Medina are restricted to Muslims, and photographing the sites requires special-and rarely given-permission from the Saudi Arabian authorities, Mecca the Blessed, Medina the Radiant is an unprecedented ex.
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Islam, Pictorial works.
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Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages-- Saudi Arabia, Pictorial works.
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Islam, Ouvrages illustrés.
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Pèlerinages musulmans-- Arabie saoudite, Ouvrages illustrés.
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Islam.
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Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages.
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Saudi Arabia.
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| Dewey Classification
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297.3520222
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BP187.3.N37 2013eb
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Nomachi, Kazuyoshi,1946-
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