Title: The Road to Mecca

Author: Muhammad Asad

Publisher: A S Noordeen (Malaysia)

Binding: Paperback, 375 pages

Review:

Muslim statesman and scholar Muhammad Asad tells the story of his road to discovery of Islam and his travels in Muslim lands, including those to Palestine, TransJordan, Arabia, North Africa, Turkey, and Persia, with the Saud family, with the Shah of Iran, and his own spiritual journey. An important book on Islam and its place in modern society.

About the Author:

Muhammad Asad, born Leopard Weiss in the Polish city of Lvov in 1900, was the grandson of an orthodox Rabbi. By this early twenties he could write and read German, Franch and Polish languages. He took to journalism and travelled Middle East as the correspondent of 'Franfurter Zeitung' of Germany.

After his conversion to Islam, he again travelled and worked throughout the Muslim world, including Arabia, Iran, Jordan, North Africa and Pakistan, In 1953 he was appointed as Pakistan's plenipotentiary to the United Nations. He moved to Morocco where he completed his magnum opus, the 'Message of the Qur'an.' He later settled in Lisbon where he died on 20th February 1992.

Asad's other works include 'Islam at the Crossroads', Principles of State and Government in Islam', and 'Sahih Bukhari: Early Years of Islam.'