Author: Abdullah Sultan AlafghaniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
A Study of the Hajj to the Holy City and a Design of the Pilgrims Accommodation Center in Makkah, Saudi Arabia
Author: Abdullah Sultan AlafghaniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
A Study of the Hajj to the Holy City and a Design of the Pilgrim's Accommodation Center in Makkah, Saudi Arabia
Author: Abdullah Sultan AlafghaniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Mecca, the Pilgrimage City
Author: Ghazy Abdul Wahed MakkyPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780856645914
Category : Asien
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
Masters Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
The Hajj Today
Author: David E. LongPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780873953825
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Qu'ran admonishes Muslims that "the pilgrimage to the temple is an obligation due to God from those who are able to journey there." Today over one and a half million pilgrims annually fulfill this Fifth Pillar of Islam, the Hajj. Saudi Arabia conquered the Hijaz in part to protect Hajjis from abuses in the management of the Hajj. How does that country now administer the religious event that brings so many people, often poor and illiterate, into one small area to perform a variety of complex rituals? How does the government protect its visitors' health and safety, and ensure their proper guidance through the necessary rites? How does it move so many pilgrims in and out of what is essentially an out-of-the-way desert? David Long has set this thoughtful examination of the twentieth-century Hajj within its historical framework. He first provides a clear, concise description of the rituals either necessary or traditional to the proper performance of the Hajj; he then relates how the inhabitants of Mecca used to manage the pilgrimage and finally, relates how the new Saudi rulers gradually brought the Hajj service industry under government regulation. Today there is probably no agency of the Saudi government which is not at least tangentially concerned with the Hajj. Only in the area of health did there exist a history of public management. By the early nineteenth century it had become all too clear that the Hajj served to carry diseases endemic to the Orient to Europe, and by the end of that century health and quarantine procedures were under international control. Today the Saudi government has sole control of these matters. Oil revenue vastly exceeds Hajj revenues--once a major source of Saudi income--but the Hajj continues to play an enormous role in the religious, social, and political life of the country. And even in economics it structures the Saudi businessman's year and provides part- or full-time employment to more Saudi citizens than does the oil industry. This volume contains an extensive bibliography, appendixes containing statistical material on recent Hajjs, maps, and a glossary.
The Hajj
Author: F. E. PetersPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069102619X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
This collection of first hand accounts of travellers on Muslim pilgramages provides a 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.
Mecca
Author: Ziauddin SardarPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620402688
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Mecca is, for many, the heart of Islam. It is the birthplace of Muhammad, the direction to which Muslims turn when they pray, and the site of pilgrimage that annually draws some three million Muslims from all corners of the world. Yet the significance of Mecca is more than purely religious. What happens in Mecca and how Muslims think about the political and cultural history of Mecca has had and continues to have a profound influence on world events to this day. In this insighful book, Ziauddin Sardar unravels the meaning and significance of Mecca. Tracing its history, from its origins as a “barren valley” in the desert to its evolution as a trading town and sudden emergence as the religious center of a world empire, Sardar examines the religious struggles and rebellions in Mecca that have significantly shaped Muslim culture. An illuminative, lyrical, and witty blend of history, reportage, and memoir, Mecca reflects all that is profound and enlightening, curious and amusing about Mecca and takes us behind the closed doors to one of the most important places in the world today.
The Middle East, Abstracts and Index
Author: Accommodations for Pilgrims in Makkah
Author: Sameer Abdul Hamid AshiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
Author: