Narrating the Pilgrimage to Mecca : : Historical and Contemporary Accounts /

Narrating the Pilgrimage to Mecca : : Historical and Contemporary Accounts / / edited by Marjo Buitelaar and Richard van Leeuwen.

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 meanin...

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Superior document:Leiden Studies in Islam and Society Series ; Volume 16
TeilnehmendeR:
Buitelaar, Marjo,
Leeuwen, Richard van,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill nv,, [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Leiden studies in Islam and society ; Volume 16.
Physical Description:1 online resource :; color illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Notes on Transcriptions of Arabic and Other Terms
  • Introduction. Narrativizing a Sensational Journey: Pilgrimage to Mecca / Marjo Buitelaar
  • Part 1 Historical Accounts
  • 1 Hajj Narratives as a Discursive Tradition / Richard van Leeuwen
  • 2 ‘Coplas del peregrino de Puey Monçón’: A Sixteenth-Century Spanish Poem about the Hajj / Miguel Ángel Vázquez
  • 3 Sufism and the Hajj: Symbolic Meanings and Transregional Networks; Two Examples from the 16th and 18th Centuries / Neda Saghaee and Richard van Leeuwen
  • 4 Religious Emotion and Embodied Piety in the Ottoman Turkish Hajj Accounts of Evliyā Çelebī (1611–c. 1683) and Yūsuf Nābī (1642–1712) / Yahya Nurgat
  • 5 Comparing Two Persian Hajj Travelogues: Yaʿqub Mirzā (1868) and Farhād Mirzā (1875/76) / Thomas Ecker
  • 6 Othering and Being Othered: Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Hajj Accounts by Iranian Shiʿi 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 ḥajjnāme of Fazliddin Muhammadiev / Vladimir Bobrovnikov
  • Part 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 / Jihan Safar and Leila Seurat
  • 13 Patience and Pilgrimage: Dutch Hajj Pilgrims’ Emergent and Maturing Stories about the Virtue of ṣabr / Marjo Buitelaar and Khadija Kadrouch-Outmany
  • 14 Crowded Outlets: A North American Khoja Shiʿi 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 / Marjo Buitelaar and Kholoud Al-Ajarma
  • Epilogue. Narrating Mecca: Between Sense and Presence / Simon Coleman
  • Glossary
  • Index.

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