The Hajj : collected essays / edited by Venetia Porter and Liana Saif.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Porter, Venetia, editor.

Saif, Liana, editor.

Series:

Research publication (British Museum) ; no. 193.

Research publication, 1747-3640 ; 193

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages--Saudi Arabia--Mecca--History.

Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages.

History.

Saudi Arabia--Mecca.

Physical Description:

vii, 278 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : British Museum, 2013.

Contents:

Preface / Nasser D. Khalili

Introduction / Venetia Porter

Religion, Early History and Politics

The Religious and Social Importance of Hajj / Muhammad Abdel Haleem

The Hajj before Muhammad: Journeys to Mecca in Muslim narratives of Pre-Islamic History / Peter Webb

The official Announcement of an Umayyad Caliph's Successful Pilgrimage to Mecca / Harry Munt

By Land and Sea: Archaeology, Hajj Routes and Ships

The lost Fort of Mafraq and the Syrian Hajj Route in the 16th century / Andrew Petersen

Trade and the Syrian Hajj between the 12th and the early 20th Centuries: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives / Marcus Millwright

Royal Ottoman Inscriptions on the Istanbul to Mecca Pilgrimage Route (Darb al-Hajj al-Shami) / Mehmet Tutuncu

From Iraq to the Hijaz in the Early Islamic Period: History and Archaeology of the Basran Hajj Road and the Way(s) through Kuwait / Andrew Blair and Brain Ulrich

The Khans of the Egyptian Hajj Route in the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods / Sami Saleh Abd al-Malik

A Longing for Mecca: The Trans-Saharan Hajj and the Caravan Towns of West Africa / Sam Nixon

Hajj Ports of the Red Sea: A Historical and Archaeological Overview / Charles Le Quesne

Ships that Sailed the Red Sea in Medieval and Early Modern Islam: Perception and Reception / Dionisius Agius

Travellers' Tales and Colonial Histories

Travel to Mecca from Southern Oman in the Pre-motorized Period / Janet C. E. Watson

The Rail Hajjis: The Trans-Siberian Railway and the Long Way to Mecca / Nile Green

The Colonial Hajj: France and Algeria, 1830- 1962 / Benjamin Claude Brower

The Hajj and the Raj: From Thomas Cook to Bombay's Protector of Pilgrims / John Slight

Pilgrim Pioneers: Britons on Hajj before 1940 / William Facey

Eldon Rutter and the Modern Hajj Narrative / Michael Wolfe

The Material and Contemporary Culture of Hajj

Architectural influence and the Hajj / Jonathan M Bloom

Depictions of the Haramayn on Ottoman tiles: Content and Context / Charlotte Maury

Inscribing the Hajj / Sheila Blair

Weaving for the Hajj under the Mamluks / Maria Sardi

Dar al-Kiswa al-Sharifa: Administration and Production / Nahla Nassar

The Textiles Made for the Prophet's Mosque at Medina / Muhammad H. Al Mojan

The Mahmal Revisited / Venetia Porter

An Early Photograph of the Egyptian Mahmal in Mecca / Arnoud Vrolijk

The Islamic Pilgrimage in the Manuscript Literatures of Southeast Asia / Jan Just Witkam

Ottoman-period Manuscripts from the Haramayn / Tim Stanley

Souvenirs and Gifts : Collecting Modern Hajj / Qasira M. Khan

Organizing Hajj-going from Contemporary Britain / Sean McLoughlin.

Notes:

"Arts & Humanities Research Council."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-273) and index.

ISBN:

0861591933

9780861591930

OCLC:

857109543

Publisher Number:

99958412818