Muslim pilgrimage in the modern world / edited by Babak Rahimi and Peyman Eshaghi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rahimi, Babak, editor.

Eshaghi, Peyman, editor.

Series:

Islamic civilization and Muslim networks.

North Carolina scholarship online.

Islamic civilization and Muslim networks

North Carolina scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages--History--21st century.

Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 pages).

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2020.

Summary:

Pilgrimage is one of the most significant ritual duties for Muslims, entailing the visitation and veneration of sites associated with the Prophet Muhammad or saintly figures. As demonstrated in this multidisciplinary volume, the lived religion of pilgrimage, defined by embodied devotional practices, is changing in an age characterized by commerce, technology, and new sociocultural and political frameworks. Traveling to and far beyond the Hajj, the most well-known Muslim pilgrimage, the volume's contributors reveal and analyze emerging contemporary Islamic pilgrimage practices around the world, in minority, and majority, Muslim countries as well as in urban and rural settings. What was once a tiny religious attraction in a remote village, for example, may begin to draw increasing numbers of pilgrims to shrines and tombs as the result of new means of travel.

Contents:

Sacrifice and pilgrimage: body politics and origins of Muslim pilgrimage / Brannon Wheeler

The Hajj and politics in China / Robert R. Bianchi

Pilgrimage and transnational religious imagination in the Muslim communities in Brazil / Paulo Pinto

Red, white, and blue: American Muslims on Hajj and the politics of pilgrimage / Sophia Rose Arjana and Rose Aslan

Pilgrimages of the dream: on wings of state in Sehwan Sharif, Pakistan / Omar Kasmani

Shrines and pilgrimage in southern Kazakhstan / Azim Malikov

Economies of piety at the Syrian shrine of Sayyida Zaynab / Edith Szanto

Grave visiting (ziyara) in Indonesia / Julian Millie and Lewis Mayo

Jamkaran: messianic experience and digital pilgrimage / Babak Rahimi

The call of the shrine / Emilio Spadola

Pilgrimage to a ritual: the sacred fluid geography of Bohras Muharram

Reza Masoudi Nejad.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Previously issued in print: 2019.

ISBN:

979-88-908493-8-0

979-88-908493-9-7

1-4696-5148-3

1-4696-5147-5

OCLC:

1098213269