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Hadji (Gazanfar Ali) Khan

Best known for a vivid early-20th-century account of the Hajj, this writer helped bring the scale, devotion, and human detail of the pilgrimage to English-language readers. His work blends eyewitness texture with the pace of newspaper reporting.

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About the author

Hadji (Gazanfar Ali) Khan is credited as the co-author of With the Pilgrims to Mecca: The Great Pilgrimage of A.H. 1319; A.D. 1902, published in 1905. On the book's title page, he is identified as M.R.A.S. and as a special correspondent of the Morning Post, suggesting a writer with both scholarly and journalistic ties.

That book appears to be the main work reliably connected with him in the sources I found. It grew out of material first published under the title The Great Pilgrimage and was later expanded and revised for book form with co-author Wilfrid Sparroy.

Because solid biographical information about his life is scarce in the sources available online, it is safest to remember him through the book itself: a detailed English-language travel narrative of the 1902 Hajj that has remained in circulation through major public-domain and library collections.