My journey to Medinah: describing a Pilgrimage to Medinah performed by the author disguised as a Mohammedan.

London : Tinsley Bros., 1881. Octavo, gilt-illustrated blue cloth over bevelled boards (spine discoloured, chip with loss to centre of spine, head and foot worn), bookplate for W. Arthur Jeffrey to front pastedown, signed by Jeffrey on the front free endpaper, old bookseller’s label removed, hinges a little cracked, pp. viii; 212, internally clean, a good copy.

The lively and engaging account of Englishman John Fryer Keane’s travels to Mecca and Medinah, disguised as the pilgrim Haj Mohammed Khan.

‘Arthur Jeffery (18 October 1892 in Melbourne, Australia – 2 August 1959 in South Milford, Canada) was a Protestant Australian professor of Semitic languages from 1921 at the School of Oriental Studies in Cairo, and from 1938 until his death jointly at Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He is the author of extensive historical studies of Middle Eastern manuscripts. His important works include Materials for the History of the Text of the Qur’an: The Old Codices, which catalogs all surviving documented variants of the orthodox Quran text; and The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qur’an, which traces the origins of 318 foreign (non-Arabic) words found in the Qur’an.’ – Wikipedia