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A Shi'ite Pilgrimage to Mecca, 1885-1886 : The Safarnâmeh of Mirzâ Moḥammad Ḥosayn Farâhâni / Mirzâ Mohammed Hosayn Farâhâni.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1990Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9780292716506
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  • 915.604/15 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE From Tehran to the Caspian -- PART TWO From Baku to Batum -- PART THREE The Ottoman Empire -- PART FOUR From Alexandria to Jedda -- PART FIVE The Pilgrimage to Mecca -- PART SIX The Visit to Medina -- PART SEVEN The Return to Iran -- APPENDIX -- GLOSSARY -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- TABLE OF SUBJECT HEADINGS -- INDEX
Summary: Western accounts of the Hajj, the ritual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, are rare, since access to Mecca is forbidden to non-Muslims. In the Muslim world, however, pilgrimage literature is a well-established genre, dating back to the earliest centuries of the Islamic era. A Shiʿite Pilgrimage to Mecca is taken from the original nineteenth-century Persian manuscript of the Safarnâmeh of Mirzâ Moḥammad Ḥosayn Farâhâni, a well-educated, keenly observant, Iranian Shiʿite gentleman. This memoir holds a wealth of social and economic information about Czarist Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Northern Iran, and Arabia. The author is a meticulous observer, recording details of distances, currencies, accommodations, modes of travel, and so on. He records the experiences encountered by pilgrims of his day: physical hardships, disease, generosity and compassion, banditry, hospitality, comradeship, and exaltation. And, without prejudice, he discusses the tensions between the Shiʿites and the Sunnites in the holy places—tensions that still exist and have erupted in bloody clashes during recent pilgrimages. A Shiʿite Pilgrimage to Mecca will appeal to a wide audience of general readers, Middle Eastern scholars, anthropologists, and historians.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE From Tehran to the Caspian -- PART TWO From Baku to Batum -- PART THREE The Ottoman Empire -- PART FOUR From Alexandria to Jedda -- PART FIVE The Pilgrimage to Mecca -- PART SIX The Visit to Medina -- PART SEVEN The Return to Iran -- APPENDIX -- GLOSSARY -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- TABLE OF SUBJECT HEADINGS -- INDEX

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Western accounts of the Hajj, the ritual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, are rare, since access to Mecca is forbidden to non-Muslims. In the Muslim world, however, pilgrimage literature is a well-established genre, dating back to the earliest centuries of the Islamic era. A Shiʿite Pilgrimage to Mecca is taken from the original nineteenth-century Persian manuscript of the Safarnâmeh of Mirzâ Moḥammad Ḥosayn Farâhâni, a well-educated, keenly observant, Iranian Shiʿite gentleman. This memoir holds a wealth of social and economic information about Czarist Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Northern Iran, and Arabia. The author is a meticulous observer, recording details of distances, currencies, accommodations, modes of travel, and so on. He records the experiences encountered by pilgrims of his day: physical hardships, disease, generosity and compassion, banditry, hospitality, comradeship, and exaltation. And, without prejudice, he discusses the tensions between the Shiʿites and the Sunnites in the holy places—tensions that still exist and have erupted in bloody clashes during recent pilgrimages. A Shiʿite Pilgrimage to Mecca will appeal to a wide audience of general readers, Middle Eastern scholars, anthropologists, and historians.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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