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The Hajj : pilgrimage in Islam / edited by Eric Tagliacozzo, Shawkat M. Toorawa.

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"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...

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Other Authors: Tagliacozzo, Eric (Editor), Toorawa, Shawkat M. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages > Saudi Arabia > Mecca.
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages.
Saudi Arabia > Mecca.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Eric Tagliacozzo and Shawkat M. Toorawa
  • Pilgrimage in pre-Islamic Arabia and late Antiquity / Harry Munt
  • Why Mecca? : Abraham and the Hajj in the Islamic tradition / Fareeha Khan
  • The early Hajj : seventh-eighth centuries CE / Travis Zadeh
  • Women and the Hajj / Asma Sayeed
  • The Hajj by land / Benjamin Claude Brower
  • Hajj by sea / Eric Tagliacozzo
  • The Hajj by air / Robert R. Bianchi
  • Economics : agents, pilgrims, and profits / Sylvia Chiffoleau.
  • International bodies : the pilgrimage to Mecca and international health regulations / Valeska Huber
  • The Saudis as managers of the Hajj / Saud al-Sarhan
  • Performing the pilgrimage /Shawkat M. Toorawa
  • Decoding the Hajj in cyberspace / Gary R. Bunt
  • The pilgrim's complaint : recent accounts of the Hajj / Michael Wolfe
  • Visualizing the Hajj : representations of a changing sacred landscape past and present/ Juan E. Campo.

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