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Languages : en
Pages : 620
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The Month and Catholic Review
Author: Imperial Mecca
Author: Michael Christopher LowPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231549091
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
With the advent of the steamship, repeated outbreaks of cholera marked oceanic pilgrimages to Mecca as a dangerous form of travel and a vehicle for the globalization of epidemic diseases. European, especially British Indian, officials also feared that lengthy sojourns in Arabia might expose their Muslim subjects to radicalizing influences from anticolonial dissidents and pan-Islamic activists. European colonial empires’ newfound ability to set the terms of hajj travel not only affected the lives of millions of pilgrims but also dramatically challenged the Ottoman Empire, the world’s only remaining Muslim imperial power. Michael Christopher Low analyzes the late Ottoman hajj and Hijaz region as transimperial spaces, reshaped by the competing forces of Istanbul’s project of frontier modernization and the extraterritorial reach of British India’s steamship empire in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea. Imperial Mecca recasts Ottoman Arabia as a distant, unstable semiautonomous frontier that Istanbul struggled to modernize and defend against the onslaught of colonial steamship mobility. As it turned out, steamships carried not just pilgrims, passports, and microbes, but the specter of legal imperialism and colonial intervention. Over the course of roughly a half century from the 1850s through World War I, British India’s fear of the hajj as a vector of anticolonial subversion gradually gave way to an increasingly sophisticated administrative, legal, and medical protectorate over the steamship hajj, threatening to eclipse the Ottoman state and Caliphate’s prized legitimizing claim as protector of Islam’s most holy places. Drawing on a wide range of Ottoman and British archival sources, this book sheds new light on the transimperial and global histories traversed along the pilgrimage to Mecca.
The Month and Catholic Review Vol. XXIV
Author: A Shi'ite Pilgrimage to Mecca, 1885-1886
Author: Mirzâ Mohammed Hosayn FarâhâniPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292716516
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
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.
One Thousand Roads to Mecca
Author: Michael WolfePublisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802192203
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 701
Book Description
“Wolfe does an exemplary job of detailing the ceremonies performed at Mecca and the reasons behind them . . . Highly recommended.” —Library Journal, starred review This updated and expanded edition of One Thousand Roads to Mecca collects significant works by observant travel writers from the East and West over the last ten centuries—including two new contemporary narratives—creating a comprehensive, multifaceted literary portrait of the enduring tradition. Since its inception in the seventh century, the pilgrimage to Mecca has been the central theme in a large body of Islamic travel literature. Beginning with the European Renaissance, it has also been the subject for a handful of adventurous writers from the West who, through conversion or connivance, managed to slip inside the walls of a city forbidden to non-Muslims. These very different literary traditions form distinct impressions of a spirited conversation in which Mecca is the common destination and Islam the common subject of inquiry. Along with an introduction by Reza Aslan, featured writers include Ibn Battuta, J. L. Burckhardt, Sir Richard Burton, the Begum of Bhopal, John F. Keane, Winifred Stegar, Muhammad Asad, Lady Evelyn Cobbald, Jalal Al-e Ahmad, and Malcolm X. One Thousand Roads to Mecca is a historically, geographically, and ethnically diverse collection of travel writing that adds substantially to the literature of Islam and the West. “Serves as an excellent introduction to a religion, people, culture, and philosophy.” —Santa Cruz Sentinel
Month and Catholic Review
Author: Historic Cities of the Islamic World
Author: C. Edmund BosworthPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047423836
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
This book contains articles on historic cities of the Islamic world, ranging from West Africa to Malaysia, which over the centuries have been centres of culture and learning and of economic and commercial life, and which have contributed much to the consolidation of Islam as a faith and as a social and political institution. The articles have been taken from the second edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam, completed in 2004, but in many cases expanded and rewritten. All have been updated to include fresh historical information, with note of contemporary social developments and population statistics. The book thus delineates the urban background of Islam has it has evolved up to the present day, highlighting the role of such great cities as Cairo, Istanbul, Baghdad and Delhi in Islamic history, and also brings them together in a rich panorama illustrating one of mankind's greatest achievements, the living organism of the city.
Memoirs of a Saudi Pilot
Author: Al Hassan Ali Al NeamiPublisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1625169507
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Memoirs of a Saudi Pilot: In the Beautiful State of Alabama (USA) is an exciting and revealing book about the wonders and culture shock experienced by a traditional, conservative Islamic Arab coming to the United States for the first time, creating some unforgettable memories. The book deals with the author's initial exposure to a foreign, advanced Western country, the new experiences he faces, the culture shock, and sharing his religious teachings with his American hosts. He writes, "At the end, it was wonderful experience, coming from a traditional and conservative Arab and Islamic culture, and having the great opportunity to study and live in the West. Moreover, this was further highlighted during the Second Gulf War, Desert Shield, Desert Storm." The main characters are his colleagues in military training from 1983 to 2011. "I was deeply motivated by wonderful American colleagues in training who were always there to help, and yet were willing to share in my culture and religion, much as I was trying to understand theirs."
Health in Saudi Arabia Vol. One
Author: Zohair A. SebaiPublisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN: 1482828669
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
There has been always a pressing need for a book which presents health topics in Saudi Arabia to planners, educators, learners, and medical practitioners. This book tries to fulfill part of this need. Volume I, an introduction and perspective, discusses some features of health problems, health manpower, and medical education in Saudi Arabia. It also provides under- and postgraduate medical students with materials for problem-based learning. Volume II, discusses aspects of health resources, problems, and services in the country. The book, in its two volumes, is far from being complete or comprehensive. It gives baseline information on health in a country that is developing very fast and still a beginner in medical research. Although the two volumes of the book have been initially published between 1985 and 1988, still it would be of value for readers who are interested in the background of health services development in Saudi Arabia Zohair Sebai (Jeddah, 2014)
Modern Movements Among Moslems
Author: Samuel Graham WilsonPublisher:
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Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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