A Journey to Mecca and London

The Travels of an Indian Muslim Woman, 1909–1910

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2025
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-07169-9 (ISBN)

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Descended from Mughal nobility, Akhtar al-Nisa Begum Nawab Sarbuland Jung grew up in Hyderabad in southern India, where she lived a quiet, private, and privileged life at the heart of the state's royal court. In 1896, at the age of 20, she married Nawab Muhammad Hamidullah Khan Sarbuland Jung, a prominent lawyer and the scion of a leading Muslim reformist movement. In 1909, the wealthy couple embarked on a four-month journey through the Middle East and Europe, performing the hajj in Mecca and sitting for tea with the future king and queen of England.

A Journey to Mecca and London provides the first full English translation of Begum Sarbuland's Urdu travel diary from this journey, of which only three original copies remain. Originally intended for circulation among friends and family and later published, her informal entries not only reveal the everyday practices of an Indian woman of her time, but also detail her impressions and reactions as she explored the world alongside her husband. As Begum Sarbuland encountered other women and Muslims during her travels, those encounters shaped her reassessment of her own identity as a Muslim woman. Her observations hold continued significance for readers interested in critical questions about gender, Islam, and identity. Daniel Majchrowicz has thoroughly annotated his translation and paired it with rich appendices, including a biographical sketch of Begum Sarbuland and excerpts from Hamidullah Khan's own accounts of their journey.

Engagingly written and enriched with years of original research, archival work, and family interviews, A Journey to Mecca and London restores the nearly forgotten narrative of one of India's first Muslim women travel writers to its rightful place in Indian and Islamic history.

Daniel Majchrowicz is Associate Professor of South Asian Literature and Culture at Northwestern University. He is author of The World in Words: Travel Writing and the Global Imagination in Muslim South Asia and editor (with Siobhan Lambert-Hurley and Sunil Sharma) of Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women.

Acknowledgments
Note on Translation
Introduction
Part I: The World Through a Woman's Eyes: A Travelogue of East and West
Preface
1. Hyderabad
2. Bombay to Suez
3. Palestine
4. Medina
5. The Levant and Sinai
6. Mecca
7. Egypt
8. Constantinople
9. Europe
10. Hyderabad
Part II: Begum Sarbuland: A Life Untold
Appendix I: Translation of an Advertisement for The World Through a Woman's Eyes
Appendix II: Selections from the Travel Accounts of Hamidullah Nawab Sarbuland Jung
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.1.2025
Übersetzer	Daniel Majchrowicz
Zusatzinfo	33 b&w illus., 30 color plates
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-253-07169-0 / 0253071690
ISBN-13	978-0-253-07169-9 / 9780253071699
Zustand	Neuware