Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women

**When thinking of intrepid travelers from past centuries, we don't usually put Muslim women at the top of the list. And yet, the stunning firsthand accounts in this collection completely upend preconceived notions of who was exploring the world.

**Editors Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Daniel Majchrowicz, and Sunil Sharma recover, translate, annotate, and provide historical and cultural context for the 17th- to 20th-century writings of Muslim women travelers in ten different languages. Queens and captives, pilgrims and provocateurs, these women are diverse. Their connection to Islam is wide-ranging as well, from the devout to those who distanced themselves from religion. What unites these adventurers is a concern for other women they encounter, their willingness to record their experiences, and the constant thoughts they cast homeward even as they traveled a world that was not always prepared to welcome them.

Perfect for readers interested in gender, Islam, travel writing, and global history, Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women provides invaluable insight into how these daring women experienced the world-in their own voices.

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edited by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Daniel Majchrowicz, and Sunil Sharma

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Acknowledgments
A Note on Translation, Transliteration and Syntax
Introduction: Muslim Women, Travel Writing and Cultures of Mobility, by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley and Daniel Majchrowicz
Part I: Travel as Pilgrimage
1. The Widow of Mirza Khalil: A Bereaved Wife Seeks Solace

2. Nawab Sikander Begum: A Queen's Impressions of Mecca
3. Mehrmah Khanom: Adventures on the Road to Iraq
4. Hajiyeh Khanom Alaviya Kermani: Iran to Mecca by Way of Bombay
5. Sakineh Soltan Khanom Esfahani Kuchak: Iraq Diary
6. Nawab Sultan Jahan Begum: The Long March to Medina
7. Ummat al-Ghani Nur al-Nisa: Notes from Mecca and the Levant
8. Begum Sarbuland Jang: Seeking Sisterhood in Damascus
9. Rahil Begum Shervaniya: Life Aboard a Pilgrim Ship
10. Nur Begum: Poems from a Punjabi Pilgrim
11. Zainab Cobbold: At Home in the Hijaz with a British Convert
12. Fatima Begum: An Indian Haji Observes her Fellow Pilgrims
13. Qaisari Begum: The Long Road to Mecca
14. Begum Hasrat Mohani: Letters from a Pilgrimage to Iraq
15. Mahmooda Rizvi: Three Months in Iraq
    Part II: Travel as Emancipation and Politics
    16. Melek Hanim: A Turk among the Greeks
16. Huda Shaarawi: A European Summer on the Eve of War
17. Zeyneb Hanoum: A Turkish Désenchantée in Europe
18. Selma Ekrem: Alone in New York City
19. Sükûfe Nihal Basar: Three Days in Finland
20. Halide Édib: A Turkish Nationalist in Colonial India
21. Amina Said: An Egyptian Feminist at an Indian Conference
22. Shareefah Hamid Ali: Representing India at the United Nations
23. Suharti Suwarto: Ten Indonesian Women in the Soviet Union
    Part III: Travel as Education
    25. Atiya Fyzee: Living and Learning in London
24. Maimoona Sultan: To Turkey by Train through a Child's Eyes
25. Sediqeh Dowlatabadi: An Iranian Feminist Travails in France
26. Begum Habibullah: With Three Boys at an English Boarding School
27. Iqbalunnisa Hussain: At the University of Leeds
28. Muhammadi Begum: Oxford Diary
29. Herawati Diah: A Journalist in the Making
30. Mehr al-Nisa: An Indian Nurse in Ohio
31. Zaib-un-nissa Hamidullah: Sixty Days in America
    Part IV: Travel as Obligation and Pleasure
    34. Princess Jahanara: Mystical Meetings in Kashmir
32. Dilshad: A Prisoner is Taken to Khoqand
33. Sayyida Salamah bint Said/Emily Ruete: A Lover's Flight from Zanzibar
34. Taj al-Saltanah: Life and Death in Qajar Iran
35. Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain: A Pleasure Trip to the Himalaya
36. Nazli Begum: On Grand Tour with the Nawab of Janjira
37. Safia Jabir Ali: Touring Europe on Business
38. Sughra Humayun Mirza: Meeting the Caliph in Switzerland
39. Sughra Sabzvari: An Indian Family in Iran
40. Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah: Life in England on the Brink of War
41. Shams Pahlavi: A Shah's Daughter in Exile
42. Nyonya Aulia-Salim: An Indonesian Tours America by Motor
    Glossary
    Contributors
    Index