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The Hajj
Pilgrimage in Islam

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Eric Tagliacozzo, Shawkat Toorawa, Harry Munt, Fareeha Khan, Travis Zadeh, Asma Sayeed, Benjamin C. Brower, Robert Bianchi, Sylvia Chiffoleau, Valeska Huber, Saud al-Sarhan, Gary R. Bunt, Michael Wolfe, Juan Campo
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  • Date Published: February 2016
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9781107612808

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  • Every year hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from all over the world converge on Mecca and its precincts to perform the rituals associated with the Hajj and have been doing so since the seventh century. In this volume, scholars from a range of fields - including history, religion, anthropology, and literature - together tell the story of the Hajj and explain its significance as one of the key events in the Muslim religious calendar. By outlining the parameters of the Hajj from its beginnings to the present day, the contributors have produced a global study that takes in the vast geographies of belief in the world of Islam. This volume pays attention to the diverse aspects of the Hajj, as lived every year by hundreds of millions of Muslims, touching on its rituals, its regional forms, the role of gender, its representation in art, and its organization on a global scale.

    • Provides a history of the Hajj using wide-ranging and diverse sources
    • Studies the Hajj through several allied disciplines
    • Approaches the Hajj through historical and contemporary lenses
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    Reviews & endorsements

    'The Hajj presents an impressive array of historical, anthropological, artistic, technological, spiritual, and even epidemiological approaches to pilgrimage to Mecca. These diverse essays illustrate the variety, complexity, and endless fascination of the Hajj.' Kecia Ali, Boston University

    'This book ranges wide. It is full of telling little facts like a comparison between the costs of buying a house in eighteenth-century Damascus and making the pilgrimage, or that the proportion of female pilgrims has overtaken that of males in some parts of the world, beginning in the 1960s for Southeast Asia.' Christopher Melchert, National Humanities Center

    'This is undoubtedly the most important book to appear on al-Hajj this decade. It is both an introduction to the phenomenon of al-Hajj and the most engaging in-depth collection of studies written by leading authorities from various fields. It is comprehensive in its coverage and theoretically illuminating, and the articles span the millennium-and-a-half history of this global institution. The book is a must-read for any scholar engaged in the study of the ritual of pilgrimage. It is also the best textbook on al-Hajj available now. A great contribution to Islamic studies.' Walid Saleh, University of Toronto

    'This interdisciplinary collection of scholarly articles examines the hajj as a religious, cultural, economic, and sociopolitical phenomenon … a significant contribution to the theoretical and practical appreciation of the Muslim ritual of religious pilgrimage … Summing up: recommended. All academic levels/libraries.' A. Rassam, Choice

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    • Date Published: February 2016
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9781107612808
    • length: 441 pages
    • dimensions: 228 x 152 x 20 mm
    • weight: 0.49kg
    • contains: 16 b/w illus. 4 colour illus. 1 map
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction Eric Tagliacozzo and Shawkat Toorawa
    1. Pilgrimage in pre-Islamic Arabia and late Antiquity Harry Munt
    2. Why Mecca? Abraham and the Hajj in the Islamic tradition Fareeha Khan
    3. The early Hajj, seventh-eighth centuries CE Travis Zadeh
    4. Women and the Hajj Asma Sayeed
    5. Hajj by land Benjamin C. Brower
    6. Hajj by sea Eric Tagliacozzo
    7. Hajj by air Robert Bianchi
    8. Economics: agents, pilgrims, and profits on the Hajj Sylvia Chiffoleau
    9. The pilgrimage to Mecca and international health regulations Valeska Huber
    10. The Saudis as managers of the Hajj Saud al-Sarhan
    11. Performing the Hajj Shawkat Toorawa
    12. Decoding the Hajj in cyberspace Gary R. Bunt
    13. A pilgrim's complaint: recent accounts of the Hajj Michael Wolfe
    14. Visualizing the Hajj: imagining a sacred landscape past and present Juan Campo.

  • Editors

    Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell University, New York
    Eric Tagliacozzo is Professor of History at Cornell University. He is the author of Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865–1915 (2005), which won the Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association of Asian Studies, and The Longest Journey: Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca (2013). He is Director of the Comparative Muslim Societies Program at Cornell, Director of the Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, and editor of the journal Indonesia, and has recently served on the Southeast Asia Council of the Association of Asian Studies (AAS).

    Shawkat M. Toorawa, Cornell University, New York
    Shawkat Toorawa is Associate Professor of Arabic Literature and Islamic Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic Writerly Culture: A Ninth Century Bookman in Baghdad (2005), and the editor and coeditor of several collections, including The Western Indian Ocean: Essays on Islands and Islanders (2007) and Islam: A Short Guide to the Faith (2011). He is a Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellow, an Executive Editor of the Library of Arabic Literature, and serves on the editorial boards of Middle Eastern Literatures and the Journal of Abbasid Studies.

    Contributors

    Eric Tagliacozzo, Shawkat Toorawa, Harry Munt, Fareeha Khan, Travis Zadeh, Asma Sayeed, Benjamin C. Brower, Robert Bianchi, Sylvia Chiffoleau, Valeska Huber, Saud al-Sarhan, Gary R. Bunt, Michael Wolfe, Juan Campo

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