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The Hadj
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Author : Michael Wolfe
language : en
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Release Date : 2013-11-19
The Hadj written by Michael Wolfe and has been published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-19 with Travel categories.
With this impassioned memoir, an American convert to Islam “lifts the veil on this ancient and sacred duty” of making a pilgrimage to Mecca (Publishers Weekly). The hadj, or sacred journey, is the pilgrimage to Mecca that all Muslims are enjoined to make once in their lifetimes. One of the world’s oldest religious rites, the hadj has continued without break for fourteen centuries. It is, like most things Islamic, shrouded in mystery for Westerners. Here, Michael Wolfe, an American-born writer and recent Muslim convert, recounts his experiences on this journey. Wolfe begins his narrative in Marrakech, Morocco. Beginning with the month-long fast of Ramadan, he immerses himself in the traditional Muslim life of Morocco. Then, in Tangier, he visits mystics and the American author Paul Bowles. From there, he journeys to Mecca, the sacred desert city in Saudi Arabia closed to all but Muslims. Though the buildup to the Gulf War hovers in the background, the age-old rites of the hadj are what most preoccupy Wolfe. His experience profoundly strengthens his bond to the faith he has embraced as an outsider, making it personal and alive. At a time when the eyes of the world are on Islam, The Hadj offers a much-needed look at its human face.
The Hajj
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Author : Eric Tagliacozzo
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016
The Hajj written by Eric Tagliacozzo and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
Scholars from a range of fields tell the story of the Hajj and explain its significance as one of the key events in the Muslim religious calendar. This volume pays attention to the diverse aspects of the Hajj, as lived every year by hundreds of millions of Muslims worldwide.
The Hajj Today
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Author : David E. Long
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1979-06-30
The Hajj Today written by David E. Long and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979-06-30 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.
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.
The Hadj
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Author : Michael Wolfe
language : en
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Release Date : 1994
The Hadj written by Michael Wolfe and has been published by Harvill Secker this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages categories.
Pilgrimage In Islam
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Author : Huseyin Yagmur
language : en
Publisher: Tughra Books
Release Date : 2007-11-01
Pilgrimage In Islam written by Huseyin Yagmur and has been published by Tughra Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-01 with Religion categories.
An extensive manual describing the Hajj?a journey that enlightens the significance of human existence and submission?this guidebook offers advice for those undertaking the holy voyage and gives the meanings behind its rituals. With special attention to the people who make the journey?approximately three million Muslims a year?this reference illuminates the importance of one of the fundamental forms of Islamic worship as a social and cosmic transformation.
Pious Passengers
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Author : Michael Naylor Pearson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Pious Passengers written by Michael Naylor Pearson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Islam categories.
For over 1300 years the hajj or pilgrimmage to Mecca - a principle requirement of the Islamic faith - has been one of the world's great annual events. It had, in addition, a huge impact on the development of safe passage by land and of regular seaborne passenger traffic in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf.
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.
Hajj
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Author : M. A. Abdel Haleem
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Hajj written by M. A. Abdel Haleem and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Art, Arab categories.
The Hajj is the largest pilgrimage in the world today and a sacred duty for all Muslims. With contributions from renowned experts, this book opens out onto the full sweep of the Hajj: as a sacred path walked by early Islamic devotees, as a sumptuous site of worship under the care of sultans, and as an expression of faith in the modern world.
Secrets Of The Hajj
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Author : Ayatullah Husayn Mazaheri
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-10-09
Secrets Of The Hajj written by Ayatullah Husayn Mazaheri and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-09 with Religion categories.
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