The Haj is a novel published in 1984 by American author Leon Uris that tells the story of the birth of Israel from the viewpoint of a Palestinian Arab.

[3] Kirkus Reviews called the book "a crude propaganda novel," and said "the narration is rudimentary, often clumsy; the dialogue is amateurish, riddled with anachronisms; flat little history-lessons are thrown in haphazardly; and there's no real characterization—just illustrations of the defects in Arab culture.

"[3] New York Times reviewer Anatole Broyard wrote that "except for Ibrahim, the haj of the title, his characters here are all one dimensional: the Jews are mostly good, the Arabs and the British mostly bad."

"[4] Writing for The Washington Post, Webster Schott called the book "ambitious, demanding, exhaustive, The Haj achieves moments of belief" and that "[Uris'] setting comes to life as part of a system.

But the machinery of Uris' novel demands leaps of credulity in his characters while he tries (with success) to make us understand why Jordan is the logical starting point for a settlement in Near East conflicts, why sexual equality in Israel is a political threat to Arab states and why the concept of a Greater Syria has narcotic effects north of Suez.