A Journey to the Hijaz

This book can be classified as one of the beginnings of what is called "travel literature" in our modern era, and it can be classified as part of the biography of the distinguished writer Ibrahim Abdul Qadir Al-Mazni, who says in the first pages of his book:
"I was particularly pleased to travel to the Hijaz and not to the West, because the West visits Egypt, and if you wanted to, you could say that it is invading it, so we do not need to visit it, but as for the Hijaz, its affairs are very different, and we would be wise to make our knowledge of the Arab East deeper, our connection with it closer, and our connection with it stronger.
I do not think I am exaggerating when I say that the future of the East is the same, even if the steps of its people differ. It is ignorance to turn our faces away from it, it is clumsiness to ignore it, it is dullness to forget that we are connected to it even if the threads are hidden, and it is heedlessness to imagine that departure is only beneficial to the West, and that there is no benefit to be gained from visiting the East and learning about its conditions."