We have evidence that since the Middle Ages, the city of Mecca has been a place that…
🐪We have evidence that since the Middle Ages, the city of Mecca 🕌 is a place that hallucinates European Christian adventurers, willing to undertake a journey full of obstacles and dangers, to find out what is happening in the city forbidden to non-Muslims. Surely one of the most famous in achieving this feat within the reach of very few is the Englishman Richard F. Burton (1821-1890), who, like his predecessors, achieved it by posing as a Muslim. His mastery of Arabic and Persian, and knowledge of Eastern medicine, allowed him to play the role of an Afghan doctor and dervish, a kind of mendicant monk, and thus freely enter the two holy cities of Islam 🌙. 📖 “Personal Account of a Pilgrimage to Medina and Mecca” is considered one of the best travel books of all time, and we have it in the Library! #bibliotequesdegracia #bbcnjaumefuster #literaturadeviatges
