Central Asian Pilgrims. : : Hajj Routes and Pious Visits between Central Asia and the Hijaz. / / ed. by Alexandre Papas, Thomas Welsford, Thierry Zarcone.

Striving Striving to fulfil one of the five pillars of Islam, Central Asian believers covered considerable distances to reach Mecca. This book is the story of their endeavours and their successes. Based on the proceedings of an international conference held in Tashkent, the collection brings togethe...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Islamkundliche Untersuchungen , 308
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Physical Description:1 online resource (331 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Notes on contributors
  • Notes on transliteration
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Sufis on Hajj
  • Tarîqat and Tarîq: Central Asian Naqshbandîs on the Roads to the Haramayn
  • Hajj from the Sufi Point of View
  • Part II. The Trajectories of Hajj
  • The Re-opening of Iran to Central Asian Pilgrimage Traffic, 1600–1650
  • The Hajj Making Geopolitics, Empire, and Local Politics: A View from the Volga-Ural Region at the Turn of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
  • Following Abdurreşîd İbrâhîm, a Tatar Globetrotter on the Way to Mecca
  • Part III. Books of Pilgrimage (hajjnâma)
  • The Hajjnâmas of the Manuscript Collection of the Oriental Institute of Uzbekistan (mid-19th to early 20th centuries)
  • The Pilgrimage Books of Central Asia: Routes and Impressions (19th and early 20th centuries)
  • Part IV. From Hajj to Pious Visits (ziyârat)
  • Pilgrimage to the “Second Meccas” and “Ka‘bas” of Central Asia
  • Pilgrimage to Sacred Places in the Taklamakan Desert: Shrines of Imams in Khotan Prefecture
  • Some Political Features of Finno-Ugrian and Muslim Hagiolatry in the Volga-Ural Region
  • Index