NYJFF 09 Screening of "A Road to Mecca: The Journey of Muhammad Asad" January 20, 2009
165 West 65th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues
New York, New York
New York, New York
U.S. Premiere
"A Road to Mecca: The Journey of Muhammad Asad"
Georg Misch | Austria | 2008 | 92m
Leopold Weiss, the scion of an Austrian family of rabbis, reinvented himself in 1926 as Muhammad Asad, a scholar, political activist and Muslim by choice. His accomplishments included helping to establish the modern state of Pakistan, writing one of the best translations of the Quran, and promoting Islam as a religion of thought, pluralism and tolerance.
Tue Jan 20: 3:45pm
Wed Jan 21: 6:15pm
Added by Jewish Museum on December 22, 2008