The Hajj

"A strong impression of the powerful impact of the pilgrimage on all who witnessed it."---Francis Robinson, The Times Literary Supplement

Autorentext
F. E. Peters is Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures and History at New York University. Among his many books published by Princeton University Press are: Mecca; Children of Abraham; Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; Jerusalem; and Reader on Classical Islam.

Klappentext
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.

Inhalt
List of Illustrations The Religion of Abraham The Primitive Sanctuary Arabian Paganism Muhammad and the Hajj Ch. II Mecca and the Ways Thither Changes in the Haram The Paths to Mecca The Ways from Iraq The Syrian Hajj The Hajj Route from Egypt The Interior Arabian Routes Ch. III The Medieval Hajj (1100-1400 C.E.) Ibn Jubayr on the Hajj in 1183-1184 Entering the State of Ihram The Pilgrimage to Arafat (13 March 1184) The Umra of Rajab Medina the Radiant Ch. IV Under New Auspices The Syrian Pilgrimage The Carriage and Care of Pilgrims The Bedouin Problem The Egyptian Pilgrimage Iranians Make the Hajj The Caravan as Marketplace in Early Ottoman Times The Red Sea Crossing Ali Bey in Mecca (1807) The Wahhabis in Mecca Ch. V Through European Eyes: Holy City and Hajj in the Nineteenth Century On Making the Hajj under Pretense Charles Doughty on the Hajj On First Arriving in Mecca The Haram and Its Denizens The Pilgrimage of 1842 Back from Arafat A Visit to Medina Ch. VI Steamships and Cholera: The Hajj in Modern Times The End of the Traditional Hajj Arrangements Large and Small Getting There: Transportation on Sea and Land Health and the Hajj Ch. VII The Great War and After The Hijaz Railway Wartime Pilgrimages The Postwar Hajj The Wahhabi Pilgrimage of 1925 Notes Works Cited Index

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