Mecca: Biography of a Mysterious City

Mecca is a city that non-Muslims are forbidden to enter, and most people will never be able to see it. This is a place you can only read about.

The book presents unique material, translated into Russian for the first time, including notes by travelers, scholars, and philosophers from different cultures. Readers will learn many interesting details from the everyday life of people of Mecca: their way of life, daily routine, hobbies, occupations, leisure, culinary preferences, architecture, sources of income, military conflicts and political issues—along with their relationships with one another and with the outside world.

These aspects remain unknown even to those who have made the pilgrimage to Mecca.