Narrating the pilgrimage to Mecca : historical and contemporary accounts / edited by Marjo Buitelaar, Richard van Leeuwen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Buitelaar, Marjo, editor.

Leeuwen, Richard van, editor.

Series:

Leiden studies in Islam and society ; 2210-8920 v. 16.

Leiden studies in Islam and society, 2210-8920 ; volume 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages.

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

Saudi Arabia--Mecca.

Physical Description:

xvi, 463 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Summary:

"Narrating the Pilgrimage to Mecca discusses a wide variety of historical and contemporary personal accounts of the pilgrimage to Mecca, most of which presented in English for the first time. The book addresses how being situated in a specific cultural context and moment in history informs the meanings attributed to the pilgrimage experience. The various contributions reflect on how, in their stories, pilgrims draw on multiple cultural discourses and practices that shape their daily lifeworlds to convey how the pilgrimage to Mecca speaks to their senses and moves them emotionally. Together, the written memoirs and oral accounts discussed in the book offer unique insights in Islam's rich and evolving tradition of hajj and 'umra storytelling. Contributors Kholoud Al-Ajarma, Piotr Bachtin, Vladimir Bobrovnikov, Marjo Buitelaar, Nadia Caidi, Simon Coleman, Thomas Ecker, Zahir Janmohamed, Khadija Kadrouch-Outmany, Ammeke Kateman, Yahya Nurgat, Jihan Safar, Neda Saghaee, Leila Seurat, Richard van Leeuwen and Miguel Ángel Vázquez"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Historical Accounts

1. Hajj Narratives as a Discursive Tradition / Richard van Leeuwen

2. `Coplas del peregrino de Puey Monon': A Sixteenth-Century Spanish Poem about the Hajj / Miguel Angel Vazquez

3. Sufism and the Hajj: Symbolic Meanings and Transregional Networks; Two Examples from the 16th and 18th Centuries / Richard van Leeuwen

4. Religious Emotion and Embodied Piety in the Ottoman Turkish Hajj Accounts of Evliya Celebl (1611-c. 1683) and Yusuf Nabi (1642-1712) / Yahya Nurgat

5. Comparing Two Persian Hajj Travelogues: Ya'qub Mirza (1868) and Farhad Mirza (1875/76) / Thomas Ecker

6. Othering and Being Othered: Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Hajj Accounts by Iranian Shi'i Women (1880-1901) / Piotr Bachtin

7. Experiencing the Hajj in an Age of Change: Tuning the Emotions in Several Hajj Accounts of Pilgrims Travelling from Morocco and Egypt in the First Half of the Twentieth Century / Ammeke Kateman

8. Inconveniences of the Hajj: The Arduous Journey of a Moroccan Shaykh in 1929 / Richard van Leeuwen

9. From Moscow to Mecca: Entangled Soviet Narratives of Pilgrimage in the Unlikely 1965 hajjname of Fazliddin Muhammadiev / Vladimir Bobrovnikov

pt. 2 Contemporary Accounts

10. Coming of Age in Mecca: Pilgrimage in the Life Stories of Two Young Adult Dutch Pilgrims / Marjo Buitelaar

11. `Beyond Words': Moroccan Pilgrims' Narrations about Their Ineffable Hajj Experiences through Stories about the Senses / Kholoud Al-Ajarma

12. Newlyweds and Other Young French Muslims Traveling to Mecca: Desires, Motivations and Senses of Belonging / Leila Seurat

13. Patience and Pilgrimage: Dutch Hajj Pilgrims' Emergent and Maturing Stories about the Virtue of sabr / Khadija Kadrouch-Outmany

14. Crowded Outlets: A North American Khoja Shi'i Ithna Asheri Pilgrim's Auto-ethnographic Memoir / Zahir Janmohamed

15. Curating Post-hajj Experiences of North American Pilgrims: Information Practices as Community-Building Rituals / Nadia Caidi

16. Mediating Mecca: Moroccan and Moroccan-Dutch Pilgrims' Use of the Smartphone / Kholoud Al-Ajarma.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Narrating the pilgrimage to Mecca

ISBN:

9789004513167

9004513167

OCLC:

1350093630