A Shi'ite Pilgrimage to Mecca, 1885-1886Western accounts of the Hajj, the ritual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, are rare, since access to Mecca is forbidden to non Muslims. In the Muslim world, however, pilgrimage literature is a well established genre, dating back to the earliest centuries of the Islamic era. A Shiite Pilgrimage to Mecca is taken from the original nineteenth century Persian manuscript of the Safarnmeh of Mirz Moammad osayn Farhni, a well educated, keenly observant, Iranian