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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.
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Among the duties incumbent on every able-bodied Muslim is that of making the hajj, or the pilgrimage to Mecca, once in a lifetime. In Islam, however, as Peters points out in the introduction, pilgrimage is not only a ritual filled with deep religious meaning but also a cultural, social, and commercial phenomenon. Peters draws on travelers' firsthand accounts and, by weaving these accounts into a connected narrative, provides a literary history of this central Islamic institution, from its inception in the pre-Islamic era to the modern period. The texts forming the bulk of this work have been selected with care and organized into a richly detailed narrative that highlights the characteristic features of the pilgrims' experience over time. The author makes no claim to be exhaustive or comprehensive in his treatment. Although some readers will need to read the work in conjunction with more specialized treatments of the hajj, it provides an overall perspective that is both unique and compelling, and its does so gracefully and with a sense of respect for those who have been the actors in the history here recounted. Essential reading for those who wish to view the institution in historical perspective; detailed notes and an extended bibliography for those who wish to delve further. Maps and drawings; a large number of photographs. Highly recommended to all academic libraries supporting Islamic studies, anthropology, and the history of religion. General; lower-division undergraduate through graduate. M. Swartz; Boston University
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | |
| The Hajj in Early Photo Documents | |
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction Maps | |
| Ch. I Origins | p. 3 |
| The Religion of Abraham | p. 3 |
| The Primitive Sanctuary | p. 9 |
| Arabian Paganism | p. 19 |
| Muhammad and the Hajj | p. 38 |
| Ch. II Mecca and the Ways Thither | p. 60 |
| Changes in the Haram | p. 60 |
| The Paths to Mecca | p. 71 |
| The Ways from Iraq | p. 73 |
| The Syrian Hajj | p. 79 |
| The Hajj Route from Egypt | p. 86 |
| The Interior Arabian Routes | p. 98 |
| Ch. III The Medieval Hajj (1100-1400 C.E.) | p. 109 |
| Ibn Jubayr on the Hajj in 1183-1184 | p. 109 |
| Entering the State of Ihram | p. 114 |
| The Pilgrimage to Arafat (13 March 1184) | p. 119 |
| The Umra of Rajab | p. 129 |
| Medina the Radiant | p. 137 |
| Ch. IV Under New Auspices | p. 144 |
| The Syrian Pilgrimage | p. 145 |
| The Carriage and Care of Pilgrims | p. 149 |
| The Bedouin Problem | p. 157 |
| The Egyptian Pilgrimage | p. 162 |
| Iranians Make the Hajj | p. 172 |
| The Caravan as Marketplace in Early Ottoman Times | p. 180 |
| The Red Sea Crossing | p. 184 |
| Ali Bey in Mecca (1807) | p. 194 |
| The Wahhabis in Mecca | p. 197 |
| Ch. V Through European Eyes: Holy City and Hajj in the Nineteenth Century | p. 206 |
| On Making the Hajj under Pretense | p. 206 |
| Charles Doughty on the Hajj | p. 223 |
| On First Arriving in Mecca | p. 229 |
| The Haram and Its Denizens | p. 233 |
| The Pilgrimage of 1842 | p. 248 |
| Back from Arafat | p. 252 |
| A Visit to Medina | p. 257 |
| Ch. VI Steamships and Cholera: The Hajj in Modern Times | p. 266 |
| The End of the Traditional Hajj | p. 266 |
| Arrangements Large and Small | p. 272 |
| Getting There: Transportation on Sea and Land | p. 282 |
| Health and the Hajj | p. 301 |
| Ch. VII The Great War and After | p. 316 |
| The Hijaz Railway | p. 316 |
| Wartime Pilgrimages | p. 321 |
| The Postwar Hajj | p. 331 |
| The Wahhabi Pilgrimage of 1925 | p. 352 |
| Notes | p. 363 |
| Works Cited | p. 383 |
| Index | p. 393 |