A Princess's Pilgrimage

Summary

In 1870, Nawab Sikander Begum of Bhopal became the first South-Asian Muslim woman to publish an account of her pilgrimage to Mecca. She travelled with a retinue of a thousand, visited Jeddah and Mecca, performed the requisite rituals and observances, then returned to India and wrote her witty and acerbic impressions of her visit. Reproduced here, A Princess’s Pilgrimage to Mecca is the original English translation by the wife of British colonial officer of an unpublished Urdu manuscript. It is accompanied by a critical Introduction and Afterword that make this offering a comprehensive resource on trvael writing by South-Asian Muslim women, and encourage the reader- whether scholar, student or enthusiast – to rethink established understandings relating to travel writing colonialism and world history.

Product details

• Authors: Nawab Sikanadar Begum, Lambert-Hurley Siobhan, Begum Nawab Sikander
• Assisted by: Siobhan Lambert-Hurley (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.11.2007
• EAN: 9781847740014
• ISBN: 978-1-84774-001-4
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); RELIGION / Islam / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, RELIGION / Islam / History, HISTORY / Middle East / Arabian Peninsula