Muslim pilgrimage in Europe / edited by Ingvild Flaskerud and Richard J. Natvig.

In spite of Islam's long history in Europe and the growing number of Muslims resident in Europe, little research exists on Muslim pilgrimage in Europe. This collection of eleven chapters is the first systematic attempt to fill this lacuna in an emerging research field. Placing the pilgrims'...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors: Flaskerud, Ingvild (Editor), Natvig, Richard Johan (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Series:Routledge studies in pilgrimage, religious travel, and tourism.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Ingvild Flaskerud and Richard K. Natvig
  • Moved by Mecca: the meanings of the hajj for present day Dutch Muslims / Marjo Buitelaar
  • Mediating pilgrimage: pilgrimage remembered and desired in a Norwegian home-community / Ingvild Flaskerud
  • Online Bosniak hajj narratives / Denita Karic
  • Pilgrimage to mecca by British converts to Islam in the inter-war period / John Slight
  • Seeking blessing and earning merit: Muslim travellers in Bosnia-Hercegovina / Tone Bringa and David Henig
  • Pilgrimage as Muslim religious commemoration: the case of Ajvatovica in Bosnia-Hercegovina / Sara Kuehn
  • After the war, before the future: remembrance and public representations of atrocities in Sarajevo / Catharina Raudvere
  • Dealing with boundaries: Muslim pilgrimages and political economy on the southern Albanian frontier / Antonio Maria Pusceddu
  • Pilgrimages in western European sufism / Francesco Piraino
  • Pilgrimage to a shrine: the recreation of a sufi tradition in the UK / Amer Morgahi
  • Muslim pilgrims in Brittany: pilgrimage, dialogue and paradoxes / Manoël Pénicaud.