Mecca THE BLESSED, Medina THE RADIANT The Holiest Cities of Islam

• Main Author: Nasr, Seyyed Hossein (Author)
• Other Authors: Nomachi, Ali Kazuyoshi 1946 (Photographer)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Aperture 1997
• Subjects: Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages > Pictorial works > Saudi Arabia > Mecca; Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages > Pictorial works > Medina > Saudi Arabia; Islam > Pictorial works; Mecca (Saudi Arabia) > Pictorial works; Medina (Saudi Arabia) > Pictorial works
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• Physical Description: 192 pages colour illustrations 28 cm
• ISBN: 089381752X; 9780893817527

Mecca and Medina, two ancient cities in present-day Saudi Arabia, are sacred to all followers of Islam, one quarter of the world's population. The distinguished Japanese photographer Ali Kazuyoshi Nomachi, a convert to the Muslim faith, was given unprecedented access to both cities, including Medina's Mosque of the Prophet and Mecca's sacred center, the Ka'bah, the remarkable and beautiful building to which more than a million pilgrims travel every year during the holy month of Ramadan