Grandson of Jewish rabbi and a Muslim convert Leopold Weiss alias Muhammad Asad’s the Road to Mecca appeared in 1954, and its merits and demerits were widely discusses. The reviewers and some known Asadians opined but differently like: essentially a spiritual autobiography and impressive travelogue spiced with a virtuosity of literary technique, its narration is intimate and penetrating a book trenchant with adventure magnificently described a very rare and powerful book that raised completely above the ordinary by its candor and intelligence a combination of memoir and travelogue, intensely interesting and moving book, a book placed in the pantheon of Arabian literature, a patchwork of newspaper articles or cuttings strung together story.
Author: Muhammad Asad and Pola Hamida Asad
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