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Muslim Travellers Pilgrimage, Migration and the Religious Imagination
304 Pages
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Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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Pilgrimage, travel for learning, visits to shrines, exile, and labour migration shape the religious imagination and in turn are shaped by it. Some travel, such as pilgrimage, explicitly intended for religious purposes, has equally important economic and political consequences. Other travel, not primarily motivated by religious concerns and thus neglected by many scholars, nonetheless profoundly... Read more
Introduction 1. Social Theory in the Study of Muslim Societies Dale F. Eickelman and James Piscatori Part I: Doctrines of Travel 2. The Obligation to Emigrate: The Doctrine of Hijra in Islamic Law Muhammad Khalid Masud 3. The Search for Knowledge in Medieval Muslim Societies: A Comparative Approach Sam I. Gellens Part II: Travel Accounts 4. The Ambivalence of Rihla : Community Integration and Self-definition in Moroccan Travel Accounts, 1300-1800 Abderrahmane El Moudden 5. The Pilgrimage Remembered: South Asian Accounts of the Hajj Barbara D. Metcalf Part III: Pilgrims and Migrants 6. Patterns of Muslim Pilgrimage from Malaysia, 1885-1985 Mary Byrne McDonnell 7. The Hijra from Russia and the Balkans: The Process of Self-definition in the Late Ottoman State Kemal H. Karpat 8. Shifting Centres andm Emergent Identities: Turkey and Germany in the Lives of Turkish Gastarbeiter Ruth Mandel Part IV: Saints, Scholars and Travel 9. Pedigrees and Paradigms: Scholarly Credentials among the Dyula of the Northern Ivory Coast Robert Launay 10. Between Cairo and the Algerian Kabylia: The Rahmaniyya tariqa , 1715-1800 Julia A. Clancy-Smith 11. Saints and Shrines, Politics and Culture: A Morocco-Israel Comparison Alex Weingrod 12. Ziyaret : Gender, Movement and Exchange in a Turkish Community Nancy Tapper Annotated Bibliography Glossary Index
Biography
Dale F. Eickelman, James Piscatori
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