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The Hajj, pilgrimage in Islam, edited by Eric Tagliacozzo (Cornell University), Shawkat M. Toorawa (Cornell University)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-329), videography (pages 331-332) and index

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The Hajj

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edited by Eric Tagliacozzo (Cornell University), Shawkat M. Toorawa (Cornell University)

pilgrimage in Islam

"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"--, Provided by publisher"The hajj (Ar. ḥajj) is one of the largest gatherings of human beings on the planet; it is also one of the oldest. Every year millions of Muslims from around the world head to the city of Mecca and its environs to perform the hajj during the month allocated for this ritual, or the ʻUmra, the so-called "minor pilgrimage", which can be done at any time of year. They come from all over the Middle East, but from much further afield as well - Africa, Asia, and increasingly from Europe, the Americas, and Australia. It is no exaggeration to say that the hajj is the most important annual event in the world involving the trans-national movement of human beings. The present book attempts to describe the various aspects and facets of the Muslim pilgrimage, with contributions ranging from discussions of the localized rituals of the Hajj itself to the building of a modern global infrastructure. Politics, economics, religion, global health, and transport are all part of the fabric of this volume, as is the lived experience of the pilgrimage as expressed in the literature and art of its practitioners"--, Provided by publisher

Introduction / Eric Tagliacozzo and Shawkat M. Toorawa -- Pilgrimage in pre-Islamic Arabia and late Antiquity / Harry Munt -- Why Mecca? : Abraham and the Hajj in the Islamic tradition / Fareeha Khan -- The early Hajj : seventh-eighth centuries CE / Travis Zadeh -- Women and the Hajj / Asma Sayeed -- The Hajj by land / Benjamin Claude Brower -- Hajj by sea / Eric Tagliacozzo -- The Hajj by air / Robert R. Bianchi -- Economics : agents, pilgrims, and profits / Sylvia ChiffoleauInternational bodies : the pilgrimage to Mecca and international health regulations / Valeska Huber -- The Saudis as managers of the Hajj / Saud al-Sarhan -- Performing the pilgrimage / Shawkat M. Toorawa -- Decoding the Hajj in cyberspace / Gary R. Bunt -- The pilgrim's complaint : recent accounts of the Hajj / Michael Wolfe -- Visualizing the Hajj : representations of a changing sacred landscape past and present / Juan E. Campo