A Road to Mecca

Dokumentary Mondays cycle will feature a documentary film A Road to Mecca - The Journey of Muhammad Asad on Monday, February 22 at 8:30pm. The screening will be held with personel presence of leading Czech arabist and islamist, profesor of Charles University, Luboš Kropáček. At the beginning of the 1920ies, the Austrian Leopold Weiss takes a journey to the Middle East. The desert fascinated him, Islam became his new spiritual home. He left his Jewish roots behind, converted to Islam and started calling himself Muhammad Asad. Becoming one of the most important Muslims of the 20th century he first started to work as an advisor at the king's court of Saudi-Arabia, later translated the Koran, became a co- founder of Pakistan and finally ambassador of the UN.