The Hajj: Pilgrimage in Islam
Cambridge University Press, 11/18/2015
EAN 9781107612808, ISBN10: 1107612802
Paperback, 441 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 2 cm
Language: English
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.
Introduction Eric Tagliacozzo and Shawkat Toorawa
1. Pilgrimage in pre-Islamic Arabia and late Antiquity Harry Munt
2. Why Mecca? Abraham and the Hajj in the Islamic tradition Fareeha Khan
3. The early Hajj, seventh-eighth centuries CE Travis Zadeh
4. Women and the Hajj Asma Sayeed
5. Hajj by land Benjamin C. Brower
6. Hajj by sea Eric Tagliacozzo
7. Hajj by air Robert Bianchi
8. Economics
agents, pilgrims, and profits on the Hajj Sylvia Chiffoleau
9. The pilgrimage to Mecca and international health regulations Valeska Huber
10. The Saudis as managers of the Hajj Saud al-Sarhan
11. Performing the Hajj Shawkat Toorawa
12. Decoding the Hajj in cyberspace Gary R. Bunt
13. A pilgrim's complaint
recent accounts of the Hajj Michael Wolfe
14. Visualizing the Hajj
imagining a sacred landscape past and present Juan Campo.