The Hajj : The Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Places (F.E. Peters)
Description
ISBN: 069102619X
Author: F.E. Peters
Publisher: Princeton University Press (1995)
Pages: 430 Binding: Paperback
Description from the publisher:
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.
Reviews:
"Peters's The Hajj provides a clear and accurate picture of the organization of [Muslim] rituals. His book is ... sufficiently comprehensive to replace older accounts of the Hajj. By reading the sources it cites, one can follow the key rituals in some detail."--Robert Irwin, The London Review of Books
"A strong impression of the powerful impact of the pilgrimage on all who witnessed it."--Francis Robinson, The Times Literary Supplement
Table of Contents:
The Hajj: |
| List of Illustrations | ||
| The Hajj in Early Photo Documents | ||
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Maps | ||
| Ch. I | Origins | 3 |
| The Religion of Abraham | 3 | |
| The Primitive Sanctuary | 9 | |
| Arabian Paganism | 19 | |
| Muhammad and the Hajj | 38 | |
| Ch. II | Mecca and the Ways Thither | 60 |
| Changes in the Haram | 60 | |
| The Paths to Mecca | 71 | |
| The Ways from Iraq | 73 | |
| The Syrian Hajj | 79 | |
| The Hajj Route from Egypt | 86 | |
| The Interior Arabian Routes | 98 | |
| Ch. III | The Medieval Hajj (1100-1400 C.E.) | 109 |
| Ibn Jubayr on the Hajj in 1183-1184 | 109 | |
| Entering the State of Ihram | 114 | |
| The Pilgrimage to Arafat (13 March 1184) | 119 | |
| The Umra of Rajab | 129 | |
| Medina the Radiant | 137 | |
| Ch. IV | Under New Auspices | 144 |
| The Syrian Pilgrimage | 145 | |
| The Carriage and Care of Pilgrims | 149 | |
| The Bedouin Problem | 157 | |
| The Egyptian Pilgrimage | 162 | |
| Iranians Make the Hajj | 172 | |
| The Caravan as Marketplace in Early Ottoman Times | 180 | |
| The Red Sea Crossing | 184 | |
| Ali Bey in Mecca (1807) | 194 | |
| The Wahhabis in Mecca | 197 | |
| Ch. V | Through European Eyes: Holy City and Hajj in the Nineteenth Century | 206 |
| On Making the Hajj under Pretense | 206 | |
| Charles Doughty on the Hajj | 223 | |
| On First Arriving in Mecca | 229 | |
| The Haram and Its Denizens | 233 | |
| The Pilgrimage of 1842 | 248 | |
| Back from Arafat | 252 | |
| A Visit to Medina | 257 | |
| Ch. VI | Steamships and Cholera: The Hajj in Modern Times | 266 |
| The End of the Traditional Hajj | 266 | |
| Arrangements Large and Small | 272 | |
| Getting There: Transportation on Sea and Land | 282 | |
| Health and the Hajj | 301 | |
| Ch. VII | The Great War and After | 316 |
| The Hijaz Railway | 316 | |
| Wartime Pilgrimages | 321 | |
| The Postwar Hajj | 331 | |
| The Wahhabi Pilgrimage of 1925 |