The Hajj - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Eric TagliacozzoTheme:Cultural Region/Arab World, Cultural Region/Middle Eastern, Religious Orientation/IslamicPublish date:11/18/2015Pages:360
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781107030510ISBN-10:110703051XUPC:9781107030510Book Category:Religion, HistoryBook Subcategory:Islam, Middle EastBook Topic:Rituals & Practice, History, Arabian PeninsulaSize:9.34 x 6.06 x 1.01 inchesWeight:0.622Product ID:SCZTM56Z3J
Every year hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from all over the world converge on Mecca and its precincts to perform the rituals associated with the Hajj and have been doing so since the seventh century. In this volume, scholars from a range of fields - including history, religion, anthropology, and literature - together tell the story of the Hajj and explain its significance as one of the key events in the Muslim religious calendar. By outlining the parameters of the Hajj from its beginnings to the present day, the contributors have produced a global study that takes in the vast geographies of belief in the world of Islam. This volume pays attention to the diverse aspects of the Hajj, as lived every year by hundreds of millions of Muslims, touching on its rituals, its regional forms, the role of gender, its representation in art, and its organization on a global scale.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781107030510ISBN-10:110703051XUPC:9781107030510Book Category:Religion, HistoryBook Subcategory:Islam, Middle EastBook Topic:Rituals & Practice, History, Arabian PeninsulaSize:9.34 x 6.06 x 1.01 inchesWeight:0.622Product ID:SCZTM56Z3J
Tagliacozzo, Eric: - Eric Tagliacozzo is Professor of History at Cornell University. He is the author of Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915 (2005), which won the Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association of Asian Studies, and The Longest Journey: Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca (2013). He is Director of the Comparative Muslim Societies Program at Cornell, Director of the Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, and editor of the journal Indonesia, and has recently served on the Southeast Asia Council of the Association of Asian Studies (AAS).
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