Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam
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Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam
Asra Nomani
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ASIN: 0060571446
Release Date: 2005-02-15

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars False claims.......2007-01-29

Beside portraying a wrong picture of Islam and denying the rules of the religion for legitmizing somthing inexcusable, Asra Nomani also lied about her paternal connection with Allama Shibli Nomani, the historian and author of the Biography of Prophet Mohammad(PBUH)"Seerat-un-Nabi". She claimed to be the direct descendent of Allama Shibli Nomani, after whom she named the son she had out of wedlock. Infact, she is not related to him at all.

Here I copy a letter from MOMNA SOHAIL SULTAN (Karachi) published in Dawn of April 22, 2005 which claims Asra has no relation with Allama Shibli Nomani.

"Asra Nomani no kin of Allama Shibli

We were extremely embarrassed to read in 'Books & Authors' (April 17) about Asra Nomani, a controversial personality, who claims to be a direct descendant of Allama Shibli, after whom she has named her son. Asra is in no way connected to the Shibli family.

We five real granddaughters are the real direct descendants of Maulana Shibli, who had one son and two daughters, Rabia Khatoon and Jannutul Fatima. Both the daughters died in their youth in 1904 and 1909. They were married and their family lived in their ancestral villages in Azamgarh.

Allama Shibli had only one son, Hamid Hassan Nomani. He was born in 1882 and died in 1942. He had no sons but five daughters. They are: A) Dr Nasim Jehan, retired director of health, Bangladesh, died in Karachi in 1997. She was married to Dr Zafrul Huda of Dhaka University. He died in 1978 at Dhaka. They have one daughter Shahla living in the US.

B) Shamim Jehan, married to Ehtesham Ahmed, who died in Azamgarh in 1982. They have eight sons and seven daughters all married and living in Pakistan, except one, who is in Kuwait.

C) Tahsin Jehan, married to Shaukat Sultan, principal of Shibli College, Azamgarh. He died in 1986. They have three sons and four daughters, living in India, the UAE and Karachi. The above three daughters were married in 1940 at Azamgarh.

D) Mohsina Sultana, married in 1950 to Amanullah Khan, director of industries, India. They have five children, all married, one daughter and three sons living in the US and one son in India.

E) Momna, the youngest, was born in 1935 and married in 1952 to Capt. Khan Sohail Sultan, who retired as general manager of Pan-Islamic Steamship Co., Karachi in 1993, now living in North Nazimabad.

They have four sons, all married. Eldest Maj Khalid Sultan, Sitara-i-Jur'at, met 'Shahadat' at Siachin in 1992, Capt. Danish Sultan is managing director of Pac Marine Singapore, Wamiq Sultan, MD, living in the US, youngest Capt. Toaha Sultan is serving in the Pakistan Army.

Considering our sentiments and Maulana Shibli's fame as writer of Seerat-un-Nabi, we hope you will publish this clarification. "

Momna Sultan is the one of the two surviving granddaughters of Allama Shibli Nomani.
Any questions about this matter can be answered by emailing her on [...]
Zehra Wamiq Sultan

5 out of 5 stars One woman's journey to the heart of herself and her place in Islam.......2006-10-27

I picked up this book just on the spur of the moment from my local library. I'll admit that the title grabbed me. Not knowing what it was really about, or what to expect, I began to read with half-interest. I was quickly gripped, however, with the honesty and heart from which this woman has told her story. Many of us choose to withold those things we consider too personal, painful, or private for public view, but Asra Nomani pushes this norm aside in her pursuit to share a journey she felt the world needed to hear.

Nomani, a daughter of Indian immigrant parents, grows up in a typical American lifestyle. At a young age, she begins to come aware of some of the tensions between that of her Islamic and American upbringings. As an adult, she becomes pregnant outside of marriage and is suddenly hurled into the heart of these matters as she struggles to find her place in a religion, which at first appears to reject her situation and struggle. Undaunted, Nomani begins a journey with her year-old son to Mecca, the holiest city in Islam. This journey parallels a travel made by both her body and her spirit as she goes physically to the heart of Mecca during the holy pilgrimage of Hajj, and spiritually as she plunges to the very heart of her spiritually, faith, and definition of self. Her honesty is both riveting and inspiring.

The only drawbacks I saw with the book: a lot of name-dropping. As an accomplished journalist and traveler, Nomani has met and built lasting friendships with numerous big names. She doesn't hesitate to sprinkle them all over throughout the book. Also, she digresses, at times, into side and back-stories that don't seem to really be necessary. But this is a biography, of sorts, so both these issues are not that bothersome.

I am forever moved by Nomani's courage and sincerity to seek harmony between all the aspects of herself, her faith, and her American values. By reading this book, you do not need to be a woman or Muslim to be inspired to take on your own journey of self-discovery and clarity. As a Muslim woman myself, I don't agree with all of Nomani's statements and views, but I don't have to. This is her story, not mine, and I applaud her heartful journey to the very soul of herself and her place in Islam and the world. This book is well worth the read for anyone seeking to better understand religion in the modern world, Islam, or women's struggle of self-definition the world-around.

5 out of 5 stars A Worthy Investment! .......2006-09-06

This book is excellent! If you want to understand the moderate voice within Islam and the struggle for women's rights, this is the book to read. Nomani's story contains so many compelling themes and lessons. To me, her story was first and foremost about the difficulty of changing well-engrained traditions and how individuals can have a great impact on creating equity in their communities. Although this book is not faultless (and I agree with many of the other reviewer's critiques), I have yet to find a book that covers the topic of women in Islam in such a digestable way. Overall, I found Nomani's narrative to be a positive and inspiring story. It has deepened my understanding of Islam -both its past and its present, and it has done so in a highly entertaining manner. I highly recommend this.

1 out of 5 stars yes,you can judge this book by its cover!.......2006-07-16

Their is nothing revolutionary about ms normani,her ideology is founded on two the most common psyhcological frailties of a conformist/ sell out.

1To erase my guilt i must legitimise what i have done and encourage the right of others to do so.
2)If everybody else is doing it,why cant we?..This the 21st century after all?

..yawn.....


The fact ofthe matter is that this book does not speak for muslim women,most muslim women have no issue with preying seperately from men,actually they welcome it ,just as the men do.!Dont men have a right to prey exclusivly?

Certainly the book has raised many issues that the Islamic world needs to confront ,but the problem is that she tackles these issues at a level as equallly, if not more ignorant, than her detractors.Her scholarship is of the most amateur level and just as her oppresors use the scriptures to justify their cultural conditioning,normani is manipulating scholars and scripture to find justification for her world view, a view that is formed by her western conditioning.
Anybody who believes theat western society does not condition you is absolutely conditioned and beyond help.!

In attempting to make Islam fit her world view rather than trying to understand it on its own terms,she gets a big fat zero.
Their is no attempt to understand the spirit,context and cosmological reality behind the scriptures.Their is no atttempt to answer fundamental questions about the nature of men and women or more precisely the relaitionship between man (is that sexist) and the universe in islam.Without a fundamental understanding of that, all further searching is doomed to be reactionary and equally damaging.

The fact that she wears a jilbab on the cover,but not in real life (promising a sincerity and religousness that isnt there), shows her in her true light:someone masquerading as a religionist when they arent.
Most muslim women can see through that and that is why her appeal will always be limited.
The reason why nomani recives support from certain quaters,is due to the sympathy vote,however because someone struggles,does not mean they are sincere.Struggle in fact can be the biggst sign of insincerity.

If a book could ever be judged by its cover this is it!
Their is no need for muslims to get worried about this shoddy piece of superficial religous debate.the only ones who would be are the type of people that made her what she is,and so the circle of ignornce continues.

4 out of 5 stars A modern Islamic woman.......2006-03-17

In this day when Islam is so under attack and seen, sometimes, as being synonomous with terrorism, Asra Nomani's book brings us back to the faith that is what Islam is supposed to represent. It brings us into the world of a modern Islamic, American, professional woman, who in her life today is struggling against the fundamentalist forces which hold such strong sway in so many Islamic countries. If one studies the history of Islam, woman have held leadership roles for many centuries, in the past, and have been well respected in the Islamic society. As with almost all world religions, Islam has its liberals and its conservatives, and so many in between. Its a must read for those who want to know about the lives of one family who live peacefully in the US and practice their faith. It helps to understand the tenets of Islam, separate from its politics and the overwhelming publicity given those who are violent and not living by the tenets of their faith.
Pilgrim Souls: A Collection of Spiritual Autobiography
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Pilgrim Souls: A Collection of Spiritual Autobiography
Elizabeth Powers
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ASIN: 0684843110

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This anthology is broken down into the four basic categories of spiritual journeys, according to the editors. 1) Wanderers and seekers--those who pursue "all available experiences under the sun." 2) Pilgrims and missionaries--"individuals whose life goal has been the unwavering pursuit of God." 3) Mystics and visionaries--"who focus on supernatural experiences and epiphanies." 4) Philosophers and scholars--those who "demonstrate a lifelong commitment to the discernment of the truth through the exercise of the intellect."

By organizing spiritual quests into these themes, the authors create an effect that is more liberating than confining, offering a clear context for the sometimes ethereal and wrenching stories of real-life saints, rabbis, writers, and pilgrims from all walks of life. Literary heroes add their impassioned and tender stories of spiritual transformation, whether it be Leo Tolstoy's excerpt from The Confession, Madeleine L'Engle's self-revealing story of forgiveness and the sensuality of the human body, or Annie Dillard's tug of war with a loving God who allows terrible things to happen to good people. Spiritual seekers will no doubt find their own stories in this stimulating and expansive dedication to the soul's eternal pilgrimage. --Gail Hudson

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What is the source of personal writing? When do we begin to consider our own lives worthy of a story? These powerful and passionate selections of spiritual autobiography do not merely represent a vital literary tradition; they bring together fifty-eight writers whose search for truth and understanding has spanned over two millennia and several continents.

From Saint Augustine and Rabi'a to T. S. Eliot and Kathleen Norris, each of these autobiographers tells the story of the inner life as a spiritual quest. Although separated culturally, historically, and linguistically, they are united by their efforts to respond to Socrates' challenge to "know thyself." In four parts this insightful collection includes works by:

* Wanderers and seekers, like Leo Tolstoy and Thomas Merton, who feverishly explore many experiences and world views
* Pilgrims and missionaries, like Anne Bradstreet and David Livingstone, who unwaveringly pursue God and holiness in lives of self-sacrifice
* Mystics and visionaries, like Julian of Norwich and Annie Dillard, who discover the ecstasy of epiphany in a life of contemplation and seclusion
* Scholars and philosophers, like Simone Weil and Blaise Pascal, who seek to ground spiritual conviction in a rational certitude.

Strong, deep, and enduring, the selections in this illuminating anthology remind us that "the unexamined life is not worth living" and speak to us with an immediacy that transcends time and space.

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Your standard book of silliness.......2007-06-29

This is one of those books that tries to sell religion to the twerps that consider themselves "spiritual, not religious" by condensing all the world's religions down to the "cool parts." Simone Weil might be a troubling character, a nutcase in fact, but you wouldn't know it by her existential approach to the Catholic faith. St. Augustine was a whiny monster, but this book prefers to give him props for the few cute things he said. Most of the rest of the book is devoted to the monks and the solipsists who think that there's nothing better or more "spiritual" than to sit on a rock in the middle of nowhere contemplating the deep thoughts like "wow. Stars" or "I wonder if I can get a bagel at the convenience store, nah, probably not."

Furthermore, the book is so weighted to the Christian and Buddhist faiths that it doesn't even pretend that there might be other translations of the Bible than The King James version. The few "rabbis" in the piece are zen talking heads. The poets are poets and the Muslims are the new age types. Of course.

From this book, I was left with a pure hatred for this kind of discourse, a renewel of my already dim view of Richard Bach, and a hatred for anyone that even wants to mention spiritual journeys in my presence. And yes, I am relgious. I'm not spiritual. Religion is about responsibility, obligations and trying to make the world a better place. Spirituality is all about the bong hits (or the fasting and the penance which act in the same matter.)

5 out of 5 stars A seeker's one stop shop........2006-04-25

An excellent collection of Christian ideas with a broad stroke of mysticism and practical theology that extends beyond orthodoxy and Christianity itself. Approachable and beautifully organized... something to keep within reach for quick spiritual jogs... poetic, deep or just plain curious times with a minimum of effort. Perfect for the short-attention-span seeker.

4 out of 5 stars The Unseen Hand.......2006-03-04

I met Ms. Powers on a walk I take for spiritual purposes and art exercize down the Hudson, or, as its known in 'Tugboats of New York', the North River. We had an interesting talk and we introduced ourselves. Afterwards, I googled her up and found this title which I bought and am currently reading. Its not a book to breeze through and I'm only on page 90 of the Spiritual Journey section. Pretty good stuff, but like that 80% Cocoa don't have too much at one time. Tolstoy gets religion and like that.

4 out of 5 stars A Wonderful Collection of Spiritual Writings.......2004-02-02

Any book that is a collection is only as good as the people represented in the book. If your book is about spirituality and contains writings by St. Augustine, Thomas Merton, Julian of Norwich, and Simone Weill, to name a few, your probably on excellent ground, and PILGRIM SOULS is certainly a volume filled with great spiritual insight. Most of the people included in the book are from the Christian tradition, but not all are "spiritual giants" or even religious so to speak. Yet each can help a person in his/her quest for God. PILGRIM SOULS is an excellent resource for those who are interested in great spiritual thinkers but may not have time to read all the longer works. It is also a great resource for those who would like an introduction to the wide variety of classic spiritual writing available.

5 out of 5 stars most fulfilling book.......2000-04-18

Pilgrim Souls was one of the most fulfilling books, spiritually and intelectually, that I have read in a long, long time. In is an immense collection of writers who have so much to offer. I personally enjoyed St. Teresa of Avila, Victor Frankel, and Flannery O'Conner. Actually, I loved and learned from all of them. I've already recommended this book to all of my friends. END
Standing Alone: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam (Plus)
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Standing Alone: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam (Plus)
Asra Nomani
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ASIN: 0060832975
Release Date: 2006-02-28

Book Description

As President Bush is preparing to invade Iraq, Wall Street Journal correspondent Asra Nomani embarks on a dangerous journey from Middle America to the Middle East to join more than two million fellow Muslims on the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca required of all Muslims once in their lifetime. Mecca is Islam's most sacred city and strictly off limits to non-Muslims. On a journey perilous enough for any American reporter, Nomani is determined to take along her infant son, Shibli -- living proof that she, an unmarried Muslim woman, is guilty of zina, or "illegal sex." If she is found out, the puritanical Islamic law of the Wahabbis in Saudi Arabia may mete out terrifying punishment. But Nomani discovers she is not alone. She is following in the four-thousand-year-old footsteps of another single mother, Hajar (known in the West as Hagar), the original pilgrim to Mecca and mother of the Islamic nation.

Each day of her hajj evokes for Nomani the history of a different Muslim matriarch: Eve, from whom she learns about sin and redemption; Hajar, the single mother abandoned in the desert who teaches her about courage; Khadijah, the first benefactor of Islam and trailblazer for a Muslim woman's right to self-determination; and Aisha, the favorite wife of the Prophet Muhammad and Islam's first female theologian. Inspired by these heroic Muslim women, Nomani returns to America to confront the sexism and intolerance in her local mosque and to fight for the rights of modern Muslim women who are tired of standing alone against the repressive rules and regulations imposed by reactionary fundamentalists.

Nomani shows how many of the freedoms enjoyed centuries ago have been erased by the conservative brand of Islam practiced today, giving the West a false image of Muslim women as veiled and isolated from the world. Standing Alone in Mecca is a personal narrative, relating the modern-day lives of the author and other Muslim women to the lives of those who came before, bringing the changing face of women in Islam into focus through the unique lens of the hajj. Interweaving reportage, political analysis, cultural history, and spiritual travelogue, this is a modern woman's jihad, offering for Westerners a never-before-seen look inside the heart of Islam and the emerging role of Muslim women.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars More evolving faith.......2007-07-25

The reading was slow-going for me as I tried to understand the author's point of view. The book explains that moderate Islamists are attempting to counteract the violence of the radical Islamists.

5 out of 5 stars One woman's honest and heart-felt journey for her place in Islam..........2006-10-27

I picked up this book just on the spur of the moment from my local library. I'll admit that the title grabbed me. Not knowing what it was really about, or what to expect, I began to read with half-interest. I was quickly gripped, however, with the honesty and heart from which this woman has told her story. Many of us choose to withold those things we consider too personal, painful, or private for public view, but Asra Nomani pushes this norm aside in her pursuit to share a journey she felt the world needed to hear.

Nomani, a daughter of Indian immigrant parents, grows up in a typical American lifestyle. At a young age, she begins to come aware of some of the tensions between that of her Islamic and American upbringings. As an adult, she becomes pregnant outside of marriage and is suddenly hurled into the heart of these matters as she struggles to find her place in a religion, which at first appears to reject her situation and struggle. Undaunted, Nomani begins a journey with her year-old son to Mecca, the holiest city in Islam. This journey parallels a travel made by both her body and her spirit as she goes physically to the heart of Mecca during the holy pilgrimage of Hajj, and spiritually as she plunges to the very heart of her spiritually, faith, and definition of self. Her honesty is both riveting and inspiring.

The only drawbacks I saw with the book: a lot of name-dropping. As an accomplished journalist and traveler, Nomani has met and built lasting friendships with numerous big names. She doesn't hesitate to sprinkle them all over throughout the book. Also, she digresses, at times, into side and back-stories that don't seem to really be necessary. But this is a biography, of sorts, so both these issues are not that bothersome.

I am forever moved by Nomani's courage and sincerity to seek harmony between all the aspects of herself, her faith, and her American values. By reading this book, you do not need to be a woman or Muslim to be inspired to take on your own journey of self-discovery and clarity. As a Muslim woman myself, I don't agree with all of Nomani's statements and views, but I don't have to. This is her story, not mine, and I applaud her heartful journey to the very soul of herself and her place in Islam and the world. This book is well worth the read for anyone seeking to better understand religion in the modern world, Islam, or women's struggle of self-definition the world-around.
A Catholic's Guide to Rome: Discovering the Soul of the Eternal City
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A Catholic's Guide to Rome: Discovering the Soul of the Eternal City
Frank J. Korn
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ASIN: 080913926X

Book Description

Internationally recognized expert and veteran of fifty trips to Rome, Frank Korn presents an insider's guide to the city. He describes not only the familiar churches, basilicas, and historic places, but also takes travelers on fascinating detours down back alleys to little-known, though very important sites. For both the public and the private Rome, he reveals the legends and traditions associated with each.

With a warm and engaging style, the author explains Jubilee Year background and ceremonies and offers Jubilee travelers meaningful alternatives to the typical sites with their expected three-times-heavier crowds. He also lists which church offers Mass in which language.

This guide is not only for Catholics but also helps travelers of other faiths appreciate a culture not their own. The author's storytelling style and invaluable facts, and the book's photos, maps, and index, make this a perfect choice for tourists and pilgrims, armchair travelers, priests and religious. It also offers "insider's info" that every travel agent and travel store will want to pass on to their customers.

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5 out of 5 stars A Must Read & Take Along.......2007-05-07

I read this cover to cover before I went on my trip to Rome and I was
able to visit some of the lesser known churches that are not normally
on the guided tours like St Prassede, and St. Pudenziana. It includes
a great deal of the history of many of the churches and I HIGHLY
recommend it to any Catholic heading to Rome.

5 out of 5 stars Seeing Rome's Soul.......2000-04-29

This is a book for those who have been there, and those who would like to be! It is a "must-take-along" for those on their way.
CCEL Classics CD: works by Saint Augustine, John Calvin, John Donne, Julian of Norwich, Brother Lawrence, Martin Luther, Saint Teresa of Avila, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas a Kempis, John Wesley, and more!
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    The most important spiritual writings of Christian history are available on this Classics CD by the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL) at Calvin College. It contains 118 Christian classics, including three versions of the Bible, several commentaries, Bible dictionaries, readings, spiritual guides, sermons, poems and journals -- all in a convenient, searchable form. Books are available in HTML and PDF formats. The easy-to-use CCEL Desktop software powering the CD enables users to browse and print books and install additional books from the Web. The top-of-class search engine can search for words or phrases in books, in authors works or in the whole library. In addition, it can search for dictionary definitions of words and commentary or references to scripture passages. The interface is a Web browser. The CD is compatible with Windows 2000+, Macintosh 10.3+, and most Linux versions.
    Pilgrims of Promise (Journey of Souls)
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    • A Wonderful, wonderful series!!
    Pilgrims of Promise (Journey of Souls)
    C. D. Baker
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    ASIN: 1589190149

    Book Description

    Unsuccessful in their mission to reach Jerusalem and to rescue her from Islam, Wil and a band of children begin the journey back home. They have endured starvation, disease and the horrors of watching their young comrades die or killed on their pilgrimage. Where is God? Why were they sent on such a mission by the Church? Vivid and haunting, the final book in this trilogy reveals some of humanity's most atrocious acts toward the innocent, and yet, simultaneously, some of the greatest kindnesses. It is strangely, not all that different from today. The reader who dares to follow these children on their way home, will be stronger, kinder and better for the journey.

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars A Wonderful, wonderful series!!.......2005-12-15

    I didn't want these books to end, they have almost become part of my life. What faith and determination these children and adults had. Don't miss these books, you will never forget them.
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      The Pilgrim Soul
      Anne Miller Downes
      Manufacturer: Durand Pr
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      Traveling Souls: Contemporary Pilgrimage Stories
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      Traveling Souls: Contemporary Pilgrimage Stories

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      Book Description

      from the Foreword by Pico Iver
      "Reading the wonderfully varied and unexpected stories assembled here, I was struck by how much the notion of pilgrimage today has to do with retrieving a sense of purpose (and simplicity, and constancy); with putting oneself, quite literally, in the footsteps of the past. Once upon a less secular time, almost everyone made pilgrimages, and most of the great works of our early literature--Dante's ascent into the stars, Chaucer's wanderers to Canterbury, the tales of Orpheus and Odysseus and Hercules--commemorate both inward and outward journeys; these days, I suspect, many of us travel in part to experience pilgrimage by proxy. Most of the travelers in this volume leave home, as I have done, to partake of someone else's pilgrimage, and so to learn what animates people to undertake such sacrificial tasks; the destination of pilgrimage is pilgrimage itself."

      Table of Contents

      Pico Iyer Foreword
      Brian Bouldrey Preface

      Abigail Seymour, "Ultreya"
      Malcolm X, "Mecca"
      Alice Walker, "Looking for Zora"
      Alane Salierno Mason, "Holy City"
      Marvin Barrett, "Climbing to Christmas"
      Rachel Kadish, "Reparation Spoken Here?"
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      John Hanson Mitchell, "Providence Hill"
      Barbara Wilson , "Joshua Tree"
      Michael Wolfe, "When Men and Mountains Meet"
      Satish Kumar, "Iona"
      Anne Cushman, "Spiritual Discomfort"
      Oliver Statler, "Japanese Pilgrimage"
      Jennifer Lash, "Lourdes"
      Gary Paul Nabhan, "La Verna's Wounds"

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      4 out of 5 stars Beautifully written.......2004-10-29

      From Pico Iyer's igniting forward and carried throughout the book by each storyteller, the book propels you forward into places and circumstances that most of us will never witness or experience. The book itself is an internal pilgrimage - a collection of color, culture, time and timelessness.. wrapped into a single text.
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        Nancy Marie Patterson Tischler
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