The Road to Mecca by Muhammad Asad is not a travelogue one picks up to read about the conditions of the people and the landscape of a country in a distant past; it is an absorbing personal saga of a man’s ‘home-coming’ to Islam, the religion of his fitrah (nature).

“A very rare and powerful book, raised completely above the ordinary by its cantor and intelligence… And what we gain is a cultural reorientation which should permanently affect our view of the world.” – New York Post