The road to Mecca

A$200 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

New York : Simon and Schuster, 1954. Octavo, boards in illustrated dustjacket (price-clipped, slight edge wear), maps to endpapers, pp. xi; [blank]; 400, photographic plates, a fine copy. The author, a well educated Austrian jew who converted to Islam, was a journalist, diplomat and polymath who served as the plenipotentiary of Pakistan to the United Nations. His text The Message of the Qur an is considered one of the leading commentaries on the Quran in English.

• Binding: Hardcover

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