Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women

Siobhan Lambert-Hurley is Professor of Global History at the University of Sheffield. She is author of Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia; (with Sunil Sharma) Atiya's Journeys: A Muslim Woman from Colonial Bombay to Edwardian Britain; and Muslim Women, Reform and Princely Patronage: Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal. She is editor (with Anshu Malhotra) of Speaking of the Self: Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia and of A Princess's Pilgrimage: Nawab Sikandar Begum's A Pilgrimage to Mecca. Daniel Majchrowicz is Assistant Professor of South Asian Literature and Culture at Northwestern University. His work appears in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies and Journal of Urdu Studies, as well as several edited volumes. He is author of a forthcoming book on the history of travel writing in South Asia.  Sunil Sharma is Professor of Persianate and Comparative Literature at Boston University. He is author of Mughal Arcadia: Persian Literature in an Indian Court; Amir Khusraw: The Poet of Sultans and Sufis; Persian Poetry at the Indian Frontier: Mas'ud Sa'd Salman of Lahore, and (with Siobhan Lambert-Hurley) Atiya's Journeys: A Muslim Woman from Colonial Bombay to Edwardian Britain. He is editor (with Roberta Micallef) of On the Wonders of Land and Sea: Persianate Travel Writing.

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
17. Huda Shaarawi: A European Summer on the Eve of War
18. Zeyneb Hanoum: A Turkish Désenchantée in Europe
19. Selma Ekrem: Alone in New York City
20. Şükûfe Nihal Başar: Three Days in Finland
21. Halide Édib: A Turkish Nationalist in Colonial India
22. Amina Said: An Egyptian Feminist at an Indian Conference
23. Shareefah Hamid Ali: Representing India at the United Nations
24. Suharti Suwarto: Ten Indonesian Women in the Soviet Union
Part III: Travel as Education
25. Atiya Fyzee: Living and Learning in London
26. Maimoona Sultan: To Turkey by Train through a Child's Eyes
27. Sediqeh Dowlatabadi: An Iranian Feminist Travails in France
28. Begum Habibullah: With Three Boys at an English Boarding School
29. Iqbalunnisa Hussain: At the University of Leeds
30. Muhammadi Begum: Oxford Diary
31. Herawati Diah: A Journalist in the Making
32. Mehr al-Nisa: An Indian Nurse in Ohio
33. Zaib-un-nissa Hamidullah: Sixty Days in America
Part IV: Travel as Obligation and Pleasure
34. Princess Jahanara: Mystical Meetings in Kashmir
35. Dilshad: A Prisoner is Taken to Khoqand
36. Sayyida Salamah bint Said/Emily Ruete: A Lover's Flight from Zanzibar
37. Taj al-Saltanah: Life and Death in Qajar Iran
38. Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain: A Pleasure Trip to the Himalaya
39. Nazli Begum: On Grand Tour with the Nawab of Janjira
40. Safia Jabir Ali: Touring Europe on Business
41. Sughra Humayun Mirza: Meeting the Caliph in Switzerland
42. Sughra Sabzvari: An Indian Family in Iran
43. Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah: Life in England on the Brink of War
44. Shams Pahlavi: A Shah's Daughter in Exile
45. Nyonya Aulia-Salim: An Indonesian Tours America by Motor
Glossary
Contributors
Index