The Hadj

Author : Michael Wolfe
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780802192196

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With this impassioned memoir, an American convert to Islam “lifts the veil on this ancient and sacred duty” of making a pilgrimage to Mecca (Publishers Weekly). The hadj, or sacred journey, is the pilgrimage to Mecca that all Muslims are enjoined to make once in their lifetimes. One of the world’s oldest religious rites, the hadj has continued without break for fourteen centuries. It is, like most things Islamic, shrouded in mystery for Westerners. Here, Michael Wolfe, an American-born writer and recent Muslim convert, recounts his experiences on this journey. Wolfe begins his narrative in Marrakech, Morocco. Beginning with the month-long fast of Ramadan, he immerses himself in the traditional Muslim life of Morocco. Then, in Tangier, he visits mystics and the American author Paul Bowles. From there, he journeys to Mecca, the sacred desert city in Saudi Arabia closed to all but Muslims. Though the buildup to the Gulf War hovers in the background, the age-old rites of the hadj are what most preoccupy Wolfe. His experience profoundly strengthens his bond to the faith he has embraced as an outsider, making it personal and alive. At a time when the eyes of the world are on Islam, The Hadj offers a much-needed look at its human face.

Author : F. E. Peters
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691225142

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The Hajj by F. E. Peters Pdf

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.

Author : Eric Tagliacozzo,Shawkat M. Toorawa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107030510

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The Hajj by Eric Tagliacozzo,Shawkat M. Toorawa Pdf

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 : Michael Wolfe
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802192202

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One Thousand Roads to Mecca by Michael Wolfe Pdf

“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

Author : David E. Long
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1979-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438411217

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The Hajj Today by David E. Long Pdf

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.

Author : Eileen Kane
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501701306

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Russian Hajj by Eileen Kane Pdf

In the late nineteenth century, as a consequence of imperial conquest and a mobility revolution, Russia became a crossroads of the hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. The first book in any language on the hajj under tsarist and Soviet rule, Russian Hajj tells the story of how tsarist officials struggled to control and co-opt Russia's mass hajj traffic, seeing it as not only a liability but also an opportunity. To support the hajj as a matter of state surveillance and control was controversial, given the preeminent position of the Orthodox Church. But nor could the hajj be ignored, or banned, due to Russia's policy of toleration of Islam. As a cross-border, migratory phenomenon, the hajj stoked officials' fears of infectious disease, Islamic revolt, and interethnic conflict, but Eileen Kane innovatively argues that it also generated new thinking within the government about the utility of the empire's Muslims and their global networks.

Author : Michael Wolfe
Publisher : Harvill Secker
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN : 0436202123

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The Hadj by Michael Wolfe Pdf

Author : Venetia Porter,British Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 0674062183

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Hajj by Venetia Porter,British Museum Pdf

The Hajj is the largest pilgrimage in the world today and a sacred duty for all Muslims. With contributions from renowned experts, this book opens out onto the full sweep of the Hajj: as a sacred path walked by early Islamic devotees, as a sumptuous site of worship under the care of sultans, and as an expression of faith in the modern world.

Author : Michael Wolfe
Publisher : Rodale
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1579549888

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Taking Back Islam by Michael Wolfe Pdf

A panel of thirty-five experts, writers, and religious leaders--including Muhammad Ali and Karen Armstrong--take a close-up look at the future of Islam, the historical realities that have shaped it, the paradoxes and schisms within it, the conflict between fundamentalism and progressives, and its beliefs and practices, in an informative panel discussion. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Author : Mira Zussman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429694967

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Development And Disenchantment In Rural Tunisia by Mira Zussman Pdf

My first introduction to the lower Medjerda Valley was in 1976 byWerner Kiene, then director of economic development programs in NorthAfrica for the Ford Foundation, and by professors Ali Ben Zaid Salmi andMonee£ Ben Said, codirectors of the Department of Rural Social Sciences atthe National Agronomy Institute of Tunisia (INA TI. The region ofMedjerdaturned out to be an ideal fieldsite, and I am grateful to the team at INAT forintroducing me to the region. My fieldwork in the late 1970s was supportedby two sources: A Fulbright Hays Research Fellowship and an InternationalDoctoral Research Fellowship provided jointly by the Social Science ResearchCouncil (SSRC) and the American Council for Learned Societies. Subsequenttravel grants from the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the Universityof California, Berkeley, and California State University Faculty ResearchGrants also were instrumental to this study. Without the financial supportof these organizations, this research could riot have been conducted.

Author : Johann Ludwig Burckhardt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BCUL:1094442661

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Travels in Nubia by Johann Ludwig Burckhardt Pdf

Author : John Lewis Burckhardt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : History
ISBN : BL:A0021512138

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Travels in Nubia by John Lewis Burckhardt Pdf

Author : Ayatullah Ali Al-Husayni Al -Sistani
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1519344791

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Hajj Rituals by Ayatullah Ali Al-Husayni Al -Sistani Pdf

Rulings of Hajj according to Grand Ayatollah al-Uzma Ali Al-Husayni Al-SistaniThis book is one of the many Islamic publications distributed by Ahlulbayt Organization throughout the world in different languages with the aim of conveying the message of Islam to the people of the world. Ahlulbayt Organization (www.shia.es) is a registered Organization that operates and is sustained through collaborative efforts of volunteers in many countries around the world, and it welcomes your involvement and support. Its objectives are numerous, yet its main goal is to spread the truth about the Islamic faith in general and the Shi`a School of Thought in particular due to the latter being misrepresented, misunderstood and its tenets often assaulted by many ignorant folks, Muslims and non-Muslims. Organization's purpose is to facilitate the dissemination of knowledge through a global medium, the Internet, to locations where such resources are not commonly or easily accessible or are resented, resisted and fought! In addition, For a complete list of our published books please refer to our website (www.shia.es) or send us an email to [email protected]

Author : M. A. Abdel Haleem
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art, Arab
ISBN : UCSD:31822038904454

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Hajj by M. A. Abdel Haleem Pdf

The Hajj is the largest pilgrimage in the world today and a sacred duty for all Muslims. With contributions from renowned experts, this book opens out onto the full sweep of the Hajj: as a sacred path walked by early Islamic devotees, as a sumptuous site of worship under the care of sultans, and as an expression of faith in the modern world.

Author : James Maclaren Cobban
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : UCBK:C076644563

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The White Kaid of the Atlas by James Maclaren Cobban Pdf