A Princess`s Pilgrimage Eschatology/ End Times extracted from Shaykh Nur al-Din

extracted from Shaykh Nur al-Din 'Itr's How to perform Hajj and Umrah

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A Princess`s Pilgrimage Eschatology/ End Times extracted from Shaykh Nur al-DinA Princess Pilgrimage A Pilgrimage to Mecca (1863 1864) In 1870; Nawab Sikander Begum of Bhopal became the first South Asian Muslim woman to publish an account of her pilgrimage to Mecca. She traveled 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; this is the original English translation by the