Perceptions Of The Haj
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Perceptions of the Haj
Author: Virginia Matheson Hooker
language: en
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian
Release Date: 1984
A study of the five Malay accounts of the haj; recorded between the 11th century and 1979. The authors are concerned not merely with the substance of the description of the pilgrimage but also with the way in which the pilgrimage is presented.
The British Empire and the Hajj
Author: John Slight
language: en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date: 2015-09-21
The British Empire governed more than half the world’s Muslims. John Slight traces the empire’s complex interactions with the Hajj—the annual pilgrimage to Mecca—from the 1860s, when an outbreak of cholera led Britain to engage reluctantly in medical regulation of pilgrims, to the Suez Crisis of 1956. He gives voice to pilgrims and officials alike.
Hajj Travelogues
In Hajj Travelogues: Texts and Contexts from the 12th Century until 1950 Richard van Leeuwen maps the corpus of hajj accounts from the Muslim world and Europe. The work outlines the main issues in a field of study which has largely been neglected. A large number of hajj travelogues are described as a textual type integrating religious discourse into the form of the journey. Special attention is given to their intertextual embedding in the broader discursive tradition of the hajj. Since the corpus is seen as dynamic and responsive to historical developments, the texts are situated in their historical context and the subsequent phases of globalisation. It is shown how in travelogues forms of religious subjectivity are constructed and expressed.