Author: Arthur John Byng WavellPublisher:
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Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
A Modern Pilgrim in Mecca and a Siege in Sanaa
Author: Arthur John Byng WavellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Narrating the Pilgrimage to Mecca
Author: Marjo BuitelaarPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004513175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
Narrating the pilgrimage to Mecca discusses a wide variety of historical and contemporary personal accounts of the pilgrimage to Mecca, most of which presented in English for the first time. The book addresses how being situated in a specific cultural context and moment in history informs the meanings attributed to the pilgrimage experience. The various contributions reflect on how, in their stories, pilgrims draw on multiple cultural discourses and practices that shape their daily lifeworlds to convey the ways in which the pilgrimage to Mecca speaks to their senses and moves them emotionally. Together, the written memoirs and oral accounts discussed in the book offer unique insights in Islam’s rich and evolving tradition of hajj and ʿumra storytelling. Contributors Kholoud Al-Ajarma, Piotr Bachtin, Vladimir Bobrovnikov, Marjo Buitelaar, Nadia Caidi, Simon Coleman, Thomas Ecker, Zahir Janmohamed, Khadija Kadrouch-Outmany, Ammeke Kateman, Yahya Nurgat, Jihan Safar, Neda Saghaee, Leila Seurat, Richard van Leeuwen and Miguel Ángel Vázquez.
The Travels of Ibn Batūta
Author: Ibn BatutaOne 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
Six Months in Meccah
Author: John Fryer KeanePublisher:
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Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah
Author: Sir Richard Francis BurtonPublisher:
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Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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The Original Sources of the Qur'ân
Author: William St. Clair TisdallPublisher:
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Category : Koran
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Qusṭā Ibn-Lūqā's Medical Regime for the Pilgrims to Mecca
Author: Qusṭā ibn LūqāPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004095410
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This work by Qust Ibn L q is a unique health guide for the pilgrim to Mecca. It discusses concisely and logically the diseases which may befall a pilgrim and their treatment. It shows clearly the author's indebtedness to ancient medical literature, most of all the works of Paul of Aegina.
Marmaduke Pickthall: Islam and the Modern World
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004327592
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This new volume of essays marks eighty years since the death of Marmaduke Pickthall. His various roles as translator of the Qurʾan, traveller to the Near East, political journalist writing on behalf of Muslim Turkey, and creator of the Muslim novel are discussed. In later life Pickthall became a prominent member of the British Muslim community in London and Woking, co-worker with Muslims in the Indian subcontinent, supporter of the Khilafat movement, and editor of the journal Islamic Culture under the patronage of the Nizam of Hyderabad. Marmaduke Pickthall: Islam and the Modern World makes an important contribution to the field of Muslims in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Contributors are: Humayun Ansari, Adnan Ashraf, James Canton, Peter Clark, Ron Geaves, A.R. Kidwai, Faruk Kokoglu, Andrew C. Long, Geoffrey P. Nash, M. A. Sherif and Mohammad Siddique Seddon.
Muslims in Interwar Europe
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004301976
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Muslims in Interwar Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the history of Muslims in interwar Europe. Based on personal and official archives, memoirs, press writings and correspondences, the contributors analyse the multiple aspects of the global Muslim religious, political and intellectual affiliations in interwar Europe. They argue that Muslims in interwar Europe were neither simply visitors nor colonial victims, but that they constituted a group of engaged actors in the European and international space. Contributors are Ali Al Tuma, Egdūnas Račius, Gerdien Jonker, Klaas Stutje, Naomi Davidson, Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld, Umar Ryad, Zaur Gasimov and Wiebke Bachmann. This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access.