Muslim pilgrimage in the modern world:

"Pilgrimage is one of the most significant ritual duties for Muslims, entailing the visitation and veneration of sites associated with the Prophet Muhammad or saintly figures. As demonstrated in this multidisciplinary volume, the lived religion of pilgrimage, defined by embodied devotional prac...

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Other Authors: Rahimi, Babak 1967- (Editor), Eshaghi, Peyman (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press [2019]
Series:Islamic civilization and Muslim networks
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"Pilgrimage is one of the most significant ritual duties for Muslims, entailing the visitation and veneration of sites associated with the Prophet Muhammad or saintly figures. As demonstrated in this multidisciplinary volume, the lived religion of pilgrimage, defined by embodied devotional practices, is changing in an age characterized by commerce, technology, and new sociocultural and political frameworks. Traveling to and far beyond the Hajj, the most well-known Muslim pilgrimage, the volume's contributors reveal and analyze emerging contemporary Islamic pilgrimage practices around the world, in minority- and majority-Muslim countries as well as in urban and rural settings"--
Physical Description:ix, 277 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:9781469651453
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