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The Hajj : The Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Places / F. E. Peters.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1994Description: 1 online resource (451 p.) : 3 maps, 26 halftonesContent type:
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  • 9780691225142
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- The Hajj in Early Photo Documents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Maps -- CHAPTER I ORIGINS -- CHAPTER II MECCA AND THE WAYS THITHER -- CHAPTER III THE MEDIEVAL HAJJ (1100-1400 C.E.) -- CHAPTER IV UNDER NEW AUSPICES -- CHAPTER V THROUGH EUROPEAN EYES: HOLY CITY AND HAJJ IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- CHAPTER VI STEAMSHIPS AND CHOLERA: THE HAJJ IN MODERN TIMES -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary: Among the duties God imposes upon every Muslim capable of doing so is a pilgrimage to the holy places in and around Mecca in Arabia. Not only is it a religious ritual filled with blessings for the millions who make the journey annually, but it is also a social, political, and commercial experience that for centuries has set in motion a flood of travelers across the world's continents. Whatever its outcome--spiritual enrichment, cultural exchange, financial gain or ruin--the road to Mecca has long been an exhilarating human adventure. By collecting the firsthand accounts of these travelers and shaping their experiences into a richly detailed narrative, F. E. Peters here provides an unparalleled literary history of the central ritual of Islam from its remote pre-Islamic origins to the end of the Hashimite Kingdom of the Hijaz in 1926.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- The Hajj in Early Photo Documents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Maps -- CHAPTER I ORIGINS -- CHAPTER II MECCA AND THE WAYS THITHER -- CHAPTER III THE MEDIEVAL HAJJ (1100-1400 C.E.) -- CHAPTER IV UNDER NEW AUSPICES -- CHAPTER V THROUGH EUROPEAN EYES: HOLY CITY AND HAJJ IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- CHAPTER VI STEAMSHIPS AND CHOLERA: THE HAJJ IN MODERN TIMES -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

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Among the duties God imposes upon every Muslim capable of doing so is a pilgrimage to the holy places in and around Mecca in Arabia. Not only is it a religious ritual filled with blessings for the millions who make the journey annually, but it is also a social, political, and commercial experience that for centuries has set in motion a flood of travelers across the world's continents. Whatever its outcome--spiritual enrichment, cultural exchange, financial gain or ruin--the road to Mecca has long been an exhilarating human adventure. By collecting the firsthand accounts of these travelers and shaping their experiences into a richly detailed narrative, F. E. Peters here provides an unparalleled literary history of the central ritual of Islam from its remote pre-Islamic origins to the end of the Hashimite Kingdom of the Hijaz in 1926.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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