Publication Date:
2024-04-02
Description:
Narrating the pilgrimage to Mecca discusses a wide variety of historical and contemporary personal accounts of the pilgrimage to Mecca, most of which presented in English for the first time. The book addresses how being situated in a specific cultural context and moment in history informs the meanings attributed to the pilgrimage experience. The various contributions reflect on how, in their stories, pilgrims draw on multiple cultural discourses and practices that shape their daily lifeworlds to convey the ways in which the pilgrimage to Mecca speaks to their senses and moves them emotionally. Together, the written memoirs and oral accounts discussed in the book offer unique insights in Islam’s rich and evolving tradition of hajj and ʿumra storytelling. Contributors Kholoud Al-Ajarma, Piotr Bachtin, Vladimir Bobrovnikov, Marjo Buitelaar, Nadia Caidi, Simon Coleman, Thomas Ecker, Zahir Janmohamed, Khadija Kadrouch-Outmany, Ammeke Kateman, Yahya Nurgat, Jihan Safar, Neda Saghaee, Leila Seurat, Richard van Leeuwen and Miguel Ángel Vázquez.
Keywords:
Arabia
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colonialism
;
empire
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Europe
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European converts to Islam
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global history
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Hajj
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Islam
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Mecca
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Muslim Holy Places
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pilgrimage
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thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHG Middle Eastern history
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thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AJ Photography and photographs
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thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRP Islam
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSR Social groups: religious groups and communities
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thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FB Middle East::1FBX Arabian peninsula::1FBXS Saudi Arabia
Language:
English
Format:
image/jpeg
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