A Road to Mecca - The Journey of Muhammad Asad (2008)
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Georg Misch
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In the early 1920s Leopold Weiss, a Jew born in Lemberg, traveled to the Middle East. The desert fascinated him, and Islam became his new spiritual home. He left his Jewish roots behind, converted to Islam and changed his name to Muhammad Asad.
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