Publication
Imprint: Orland Park Illinois : MPI Media Group, 2004, ©1997. Context: "An MPI Home Video presentation of an ABC News production"--Container. Originally broadcast on the television program Nightline, on April 18, 1997. Responsibility: ABC News. Performer(s): Host, Ted Koppel ; guest, Michael Wolfe. OCLC Number: 56017845. Physical: 1 videodisc (approximately 22 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Call number
DVD / Front Desk
ISBN
0788605747 / 9780788605741
UPC
030306726793
Original publication date
1997-04-18
Collections
CSS Library Notes
Description: For over 1,400 years, MuslimsThen making their holy pilgrimage to the sacred site of Mecca. In modern times, approximately 2,000,000 Muslims make the pilgrimage–or Hajj–to Mecca each year, a trip required of the faithful at least once in every member's lifetime. Muslims from all over the world come together there, bereft of any outside identity save that of their shared faith. As the place where the Prophet Mohammed received the verses of the Koran, Mecca is a place of great spirituality and tradition.
Non-Muslims are forbidden entry to Mecca, and it is, therefore, a place that few Americans will ever get to see. But in this special broadcast that aired during the last month of the Islamic year, when the Hajj is traditionally made, writer Michael Wolfe documents his trip to Islam's holiest shrine for ABC News Nightline. One of the more than 5 million Muslims in the United States, Wolfe is a convert, born the son of a Christian mother and a Jewish father. The location is his 2nd Hajj, and Wolfe takes viewers step-by-step through the spiritual side of the pilgrimage, explaining the origins and meanings of the various rituals, and then speaking live, from the great Mosque of Mecca with ABC news Ted Koppel.
FY2010 / jvsn
Non-Muslims are forbidden entry to Mecca, and it is, therefore, a place that few Americans will ever get to see. But in this special broadcast that aired during the last month of the Islamic year, when the Hajj is traditionally made, writer Michael Wolfe documents his trip to Islam's holiest shrine for ABC News Nightline. One of the more than 5 million Muslims in the United States, Wolfe is a convert, born the son of a Christian mother and a Jewish father. The location is his 2nd Hajj, and Wolfe takes viewers step-by-step through the spiritual side of the pilgrimage, explaining the origins and meanings of the various rituals, and then speaking live, from the great Mosque of Mecca with ABC news Ted Koppel.
FY2010 / jvsn
Physical description
4.75 inches
Description
Michael Wolfe, an American Muslim, describes the experience of his hajj, or piligrimage to Mecca.