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Personal Narrative Of A Pilgrimage To El Medinah And Meccah
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Author : Sir Richard Francis Burton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1855
Personal Narrative Of A Pilgrimage To El Medinah And Meccah written by Sir Richard Francis Burton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1855 with Arabian Peninsula categories.
The Hajj Today
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Author : David E. Long
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1979-01-01
The Hajj Today written by David E. Long and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979-01-01 with Religion categories.
The Qu'ran admonishes Muslims that "the pilgrimage to the temple is an obligation due to God from those who are able to journey there." Today over one and a half million pilgrims annually fulfill this Fifth Pillar of Islam, the Hajj. Saudi Arabia conquered the Hijaz in part to protect Hajjis from abuses in the management of the Hajj. How does that country now administer the religious event that brings so many people, often poor and illiterate, into one small area to perform a variety of complex rituals? How does the government protect its visitors' health and safety, and ensure their proper guidance through the necessary rites? How does it move so many pilgrims in and out of what is essentially an out-of-the-way desert? David Long has set this thoughtful examination of the twentieth-century Hajj within its historical framework. He first provides a clear, concise description of the rituals either necessary or traditional to the proper performance of the Hajj; he then relates how the inhabitants of Mecca used to manage the pilgrimage and finally, relates how the new Saudi rulers gradually brought the Hajj service industry under government regulation. Today there is probably no agency of the Saudi government which is not at least tangentially concerned with the Hajj. Only in the area of health did there exist a history of public management. By the early nineteenth century it had become all too clear that the Hajj served to carry diseases endemic to the Orient to Europe, and by the end of that century health and quarantine procedures were under international control. Today the Saudi government has sole control of these matters. Oil revenue vastly exceeds Hajj revenues--once a major source of Saudi income--but the Hajj continues to play an enormous role in the religious, social, and political life of the country. And even in economics it structures the Saudi businessman's year and provides part- or full-time employment to more Saudi citizens than does the oil industry. This volume contains an extensive bibliography, appendixes containing statistical material on recent Hajjs, maps, and a glossary.
Mecca The Blessed Medina The Radiant Bilingual
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Author : Seyyed Hossein Nasr
language : en
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Release Date : 2015-11-24
Mecca The Blessed Medina The Radiant Bilingual written by Seyyed Hossein Nasr and has been published by Tuttle Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-24 with Religion categories.
Mecca the Blessed, Medina the Radiant is an unprecedented photographic exploration of the most holy cities of Islam and the Hajj, or annual pilgrimage during Ramadan, when more than a million faithful journey to Mecca's Great Mosque to commemorate the first revelation of the Qur'an (Koran). This book allows both Muslims and those unfamiliar with the Islamic faith complete access to the holiest sites of one of the world's major religions, practiced by a quarter of the world's population but often misunderstood in the West. Photographer Ali Kazuyoshi Namachi, a Muslim convert from Japan, garnered the full support of Saudi Arabian authorities--rarely given--to shoot in cities where photography is strictly controlled and non-Muslims are not allowed. An expansive work of photojournalism, Mecca the Blessed, Medina the Radiant includes: 140 full-color, never-before-seen photographs Mystical places and scenes of Islam Breathtaking aerial photographs of the Arabian terrain Vistas of teeming crowds of worshippers surrounding the Kacbah, Mecca's sacred center Intense portraits of faithful Muslims in prayer Magnificent architecture reflecting the faith of the believers Archival illustrations Text by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, one of the most highly regarded scholars of Islam, enhances the stunning Islamic holy city photographs to illuminate many aspects of Islamic belief that have remained enigma to non-Muslims--until now.
The Spell Of The Ancestors And The Power Of Mekkah
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Author : Sven Cederroth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
The Spell Of The Ancestors And The Power Of Mekkah written by Sven Cederroth and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Lombok (Indonesia) categories.
Mecca
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Author : F. E. Peters
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2017-03-14
Mecca written by F. E. Peters and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-14 with Religion categories.
For the non-Muslim, Mecca is the most forbidden of Holy Cities--and yet, in many ways it is the best known. Muslim historians and geographers have studied it, and countless pilgrims and travelers--many of them European Christians in disguise--have left behind lively and well-publicized accounts of life in Mecca and its associated shrine-city of Medina, where the Prophet lies buried. The stories of all these figures, holy men and heathens alike, come together in this book to offer a remarkably revealing literary portrait of the city's traditions and urban life and of the surrounding area. Closely following the publication of F. E. Peters's The Hajj (Princeton, 1994), which describes the perilous pilgrimage itself from the travelers' perspectives, this collection of writings and commentary completes the historical travelogue. The accounts begin with the Muslims themselves, in the patriarchal age of Abraham and Ishmael, and trace the sometimes glorious and sometimes sad history of Islam's central shrine down to the last Grand Sharif of Mecca, Husayn ibn Ali, whose fragile kingdom was overtaken by the House of Sa`ud in 1926. Because of chronic flooding and constant rebuilding, there is little or no material evidence for the early history of Islam's holy cities. By assembling, analyzing, and fashioning these literary accounts of Mecca, however, Peters supplies us with a vivid sense of place and human interaction, much as he did in his widely acclaimed Jerusalem (Princeton, 1985). Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Hajj
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Author : F. E. Peters
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-02-09
The Hajj written by F. E. Peters and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-09 with Religion categories.
Among the duties God imposes upon every Muslim capable of doing so is a pilgrimage to the holy places in and around Mecca in Arabia. Not only is it a religious ritual filled with blessings for the millions who make the journey annually, but it is also a social, political, and commercial experience that for centuries has set in motion a flood of travelers across the world's continents. Whatever its outcome--spiritual enrichment, cultural exchange, financial gain or ruin--the road to Mecca has long been an exhilarating human adventure. By collecting the firsthand accounts of these travelers and shaping their experiences into a richly detailed narrative, F. E. Peters here provides an unparalleled literary history of the central ritual of Islam from its remote pre-Islamic origins to the end of the Hashimite Kingdom of the Hijaz in 1926.
Mekka In The Latter Part Of The 19th Century
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Author : C. Snouck Hurgronje
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2006-12-01
Mekka In The Latter Part Of The 19th Century written by C. Snouck Hurgronje and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-12-01 with Social Science categories.
From 1884-1885, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje stayed in Mecca. He became intimately acquainted with the daily life of the Meccans and the thousands of pilgrims from all over the world. This volume deals with social and family life, funeral customs and marriage. It is a unique insight in one the most important places in islamic culture. With a new foreword by Jan Just Witkam
One Thousand Roads To Mecca
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Author : Michael Wolfe
language : en
Publisher: Grove Press
Release Date : 1997
One Thousand Roads To Mecca written by Michael Wolfe and has been published by Grove Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
Beginning with the European Renaissance, it has also been the subject for a handful of adventurous writers from the Christian West who, through conversion or connivance, managed to slip inside the walls of a city forbidden to non-Muslims.
Personal Narrative Of A Pilgrimage To El Medinah And Meccah Meccah
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Author : Sir Richard Francis Burton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1856
Personal Narrative Of A Pilgrimage To El Medinah And Meccah Meccah written by Sir Richard Francis Burton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1856 with Arabian Peninsula categories.
Personal Narrative Of A Pilgrimage To El Medinah And Meccah
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Author : Sir Richard Francis Burton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1855
Personal Narrative Of A Pilgrimage To El Medinah And Meccah written by Sir Richard Francis Burton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1855 with Arabian Peninsula categories.