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Author: Abdellah Hammoudi Publisher: Polity ISBN: 0745637892 Category : Mecca (Saudi Arabia) Languages : en Pages : 303
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Moroccan scholar Abdellah Hammoudi takes a pilgrimage to Mecca to observe the Hajj as an anthropologist and as an ordinary pilgrim, and to write about it for both Muslims and non-Muslims. Here is his intimate, intense, and detailed account.
Author: Abdellah Hammoudi Publisher: Polity ISBN: 0745637892 Category : Mecca (Saudi Arabia) Languages : en Pages : 303
Book Description
Moroccan scholar Abdellah Hammoudi takes a pilgrimage to Mecca to observe the Hajj as an anthropologist and as an ordinary pilgrim, and to write about it for both Muslims and non-Muslims. Here is his intimate, intense, and detailed account.
Author: Jonathan A.C. Brown Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199559287 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 161
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Drawing on traditional Muslim sources, Michael Cook describes Muhammad's life and teaching. He also attempts to stand back from this traditional picture to show how far it is historically justified.
Author: Barnaby Rogerson Publisher: Paulist Press ISBN: 1587680297 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 257
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"In this biography, Barnaby Rogerson explores the life and times of this deeply influential figure. Vividly describing the sixth-century Arabia where Muhammad was born, Rogerson charts his early years among the flocks, the caravans and the markets of his native Mecca; the night the Archangel Gabriel appeared before him and Muhammad become the messenger of God; the dangerous years of reciting the divine revelations in Mecca; his escape to Yathrib (Medina) and the subsequent battles between the pagan Meccans and the Prophet's Muslim forces, who would ultimately prove victorious."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Mirzâ Mohammed Hosayn Farâhâni Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 0292716516 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 445
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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.
Author: Michael Smith Jr. Publisher: WestBow Press ISBN: 1973666499 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 104
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From the very first words in our Bible, God has given us the history of creation, the history of the nations, and the glorious history of how he redeemed mankind. The Bible is God’s manual to us on how to live and how to become a child of God. In all of his Word, God has given us patterns to show us how the past can reveal the future. In the first two chapters, in the book of Genesis, God gives us a pattern in the seven days of creation of six thousand years of human history and a pattern of the one-thousand-year millennium Kingdom of Jesus Christ. In this book, I want to show the pattern of Armageddon in the story of Gideon and the rise of the spirit of Baal in a major way!
Author: Alf Hiltebeitel Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226340554 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 575
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Throughout India and Southeast Asia, ancient classical epics—the Mahabharata and the Ramayana—continue to exert considerable cultural influence. Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics offers an unprecedented exploration into South Asia's regional epic traditions. Using his own fieldwork as a starting point, Alf Hiltebeitel analyzes how the oral tradition of the south Indian cult of the goddess Draupadi and five regional martial oral epics compare with one another and tie in with the Sanskrit epics. Drawing on literary theory and cultural studies, he reveals the shared subtexts of the Draupadi cult Mahabharata and the five oral epics, and shows how the traditional plots are twisted and classical characters reshaped to reflect local history and religion. In doing so, Hiltebeitel sheds new light on the intertwining oral traditions of medieval Rajput military culture, Dalits ("former Untouchables"), and Muslims. Breathtaking in scope, this work is indispensable for those seeking a deeper understanding of South Asia's Hindu and Muslim traditions. This work is the third volume in Hiltebeitel's study of the Draupadi cult. Other volumes include Mythologies: From Gingee to Kuruksetra (Volume One), On Hindu Ritual and the Goddess (Volume Two), and Rethinking the Mahabharata (Volume Four).
Author: Eric Tagliacozzo Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 110703051X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 365
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Scholars from a range of fields tell the story of the Hajj and explain its significance as one of the key events in the Muslim religious calendar. This volume pays attention to the diverse aspects of the Hajj, as lived every year by hundreds of millions of Muslims worldwide.
Author: Salman Rushdie Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312270827 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 580
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Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two figures, Gibreel Farishta, the biggest star in India, and Saladin Chamcha, an expatriate returning from his first visit to Bombay in fifteen years, plummet from the sky, washing up on the snow-covered sands of an English beach, and proceed through a series of metamorphoses, dreams, and revelations.
Author: Abdellah Hammoudi
Author: Abdellah Hammoudi
Author: William St. Clair Tisdall
Author: Jonathan A.C. Brown
Author: Barnaby Rogerson
Author: Bayard Taylor
Author: Mirzâ Mohammed Hosayn Farâhâni
Author: Michael Smith Jr.
Author: Alf Hiltebeitel
Author: Eric Tagliacozzo
Author: Salman Rushdie