The Hajj : pilgrimage in Islam /

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Imprint:	New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016. ©2016
Description:	xv, 343 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Saudi Arabia -- Mecca. Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages. Saudi Arabia -- Mecca.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10829403

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Other authors / contributors:	Tagliacozzo, Eric, editor. Toorawa, Shawkat M., editor.
ISBN:	9781107030510 110703051X 9781107612808 1107612802
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-329), videography (pages 331-332) and index.
Summary:	"Every year hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from all over the world converge on Mecca and its precincts to perform the rituals associated with the Hajj and have been doing so since the seventh century. In this volume, scholars from a range of fields - including history, religion, anthropology, and literature - together tell the story of the Hajj and explain its significance as one of the key events in the Muslim religious calendar. By outlining the parameters of the Hajj from its beginnings to the present day, the contributors have produced a global study that takes in the vast geographies of belief in the world of Islam. This volume pays attention to the diverse aspects of the Hajj, as lived every year by hundreds of millions of Muslims, touching on its rituals, its regional forms, the role of gender, its representation in art, and its organization on a global scale"-- "The hajj (Ar. ḥajj) is one of the largest gatherings of human beings on the planet; it is also one of the oldest. Every year millions of Muslims from around the world head to the city of Mecca and its environs to perform the hajj during the month allocated for this ritual, or the ʻUmra, the so-called "minor pilgrimage", which can be done at any time of year. They come from all over the Middle East, but from much further afield as well - Africa, Asia, and increasingly from Europe, the Americas, and Australia. It is no exaggeration to say that the hajj is the most important annual event in the world involving the trans-national movement of human beings. The present book attempts to describe the various aspects and facets of the Muslim pilgrimage, with contributions ranging from discussions of the localized rituals of the Hajj itself to the building of a modern global infrastructure. Politics, economics, religion, global health, and transport are all part of the fabric of this volume, as is the lived experience of the pilgrimage as expressed in the literature and art of its practitioners"--

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. Pilgrimage in pre-Islamic Arabia and late Antiquity
2. Why Mecca? Abraham and the Hajj in the Islamic tradition
3. The early Hajj, seventh-eighth centuries CE
4. Women and the Hajj
5. Hajj by land
6. Hajj by sea
7. Hajj by air
8. Economics: agents, pilgrims, and profits on the Hajj
9. The pilgrimage to Mecca and international health regulations
10. The Saudis as managers of the Hajj
11. Performing the Hajj
12. Decoding the Hajj in cyberspace
13. A pilgrim's complaint: recent accounts of the Hajj
14. Visualizing the Hajj: imagining a sacred landscape past and present

The Hajj : pilgrimage in Islam /

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