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Original Title:	The Road to Mecca
ISBN:	1887752374 (ISBN13: 9781887752374)
Edition Language:	English URL http://muhammad-asad.com/Road-to-Mecca.pdf

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There are enough reviews by other people, which does the justice to the book. Yet I just want to add that Leopold Weis/Muhammad Asad's life is the testimony to one thing:

Can a modern/secular mind find it way into Islam and appreciate its truth? And if so how is this possible?

As I was born in and raised into a Muslim society, I took it for granted that Islam was the true calling of God. Yet after I have started studyin social sciences and Western society, the question above has become increasingly pressing for me. Because the answer to this question would help me decide whether Islam was really universal in its essence or I was living a truth-regime.

Esed's experience is the perfect testimony of the modern reason finding its way into Islam and at the same time reconstructing the message and significance of Islam for the modern Muslim. It helps us understand the relevance of Quranic message for Modernity.

Finally I'd like to say that vividness of the experiences in the book occasionally made me cry; something I experience so rarely. Towards the end, the cry "Lebbeyk!" was echoing in my own heart.

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Title	:	The Road to Mecca
Author	:	Muhammad Asad
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 375 pages
Published	:	January 1st 2000 by Fons Vitae (first published 1954)
Categories	:	Religion. Islam. Nonfiction. Biography. History

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It took a while to complete this book. Primarily because I didn't want to haste and grasp the author's journey and struggles towards faith and understanding fate. Maybe because that's what I wanted to reinforce within me. This book gave a different sort of optimism and most importantly it highlights the right kind of attitude in way of struggle especially towards faith. Emphasizes of Muhammad Assad and epitome of his whole journey has been gathering knowledge from wherever he could and that is

This is a fascinating bookhalf travelogue and half conversion memoir. Muhammad Asad was born a Jew, Leopold Weiss, in the Austro-Hungarian empire (in what is now Ukraine, the city of Lvov). He was prominent both in interactions with the West in the 20th Century, for example as Pakistani ambassador to the UN, and in theological work, including translation and exegesis of the Quran. Asad is regarded, and should be even more regarded in these days of Al Qaeda and ISIS, as a voice for a

This book reads like a Hollywood script ! I'm really surprised there hasn't been a movie based on this yet, his storytelling is captivating and deeply reflective, highly recommend!

One of the best autobiographies I've ever read. It's one of those books which you don't read but actually live. Asad wrote this book to tell his journey of transmutation from Leopold(his old name, representing his Jewish life) to Asad(his new name, showing his Muslim life) . This journey includes his adventures in the Middle East, his understanding of local cultures and most importantly, the religion transcending personal territories and becoming a part of cultural, social, political and

When I first read this book it instilled in me a wonderous vision. When I read it again it filled me with a critical history. When I picked it up a few years later, I read it as a man searching. In this, it's great.This book changed the direction of my life. It was not because I was lost, for I still am lost today, but it showed me that people do change the worlds in changing themselves.The book is an autobiographical account of an Austrian Jew named Leopold Weiss who through time and experience

An amazing first half, more than a road - an adventure. A glimpse into early 20th century Arabia.

By turns achingly beautiful, exasperating, illogical, and penetrating, The Road to Mecca is one extraordinary man's transformation from disaffected European to devout Muslim. Along the way, this journalist became friends with the King of Saudi Arabia, got to know the Shah of Iran, and met just about every player in the Middle East in the first part of the 20th Century. His perspective is skewed, flawed, and deeply insightful. It's a huge corrective to the Western media's simplistic and