Muslim Travellers

by Eickelman, Dale F.; Piscatori, James

• ISBN13: 9780520072527
• ISBN10: 0520072529
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2013-11-05
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

Focusing on travel in Muslim societies from Malaysia to West Africa to Western Europe from the first centuries of Islam to the present, the contributors to this edition investigate the role of religious doctrine in motivating travel. While pilgrimage is usually seen as travel with a uniquely religious purpose, this exploration of the role of travel in Muslim societies and in Islamic doctrine shows that other forms of travel--for learning, visits to shrines, exile, and labor migration--also shape the religious imagination. Conversely, travel for specifically religious purposes often has important economic and political consequences. The contributors explore the transnational and local significance of pilgrimage and migration, showing how these journeys heighten a universal sense of "being Muslim" while also inspiring the redefinition of the frontiers of sect, language, territory, and nation. In this way, encounters with Muslim "others" have been as important in shaping community self-definition as encounters with European "others." Linking pilgrimage and migration to issues such as class, ethnicity, and gender,Muslim Travellerswill be of special value to students of history and anthropology and to those in cross-disciplinary courses such as Islamic civilization and world religions.

Author Biography

Dale F. Eickelman is Ralph and Richard Lazarus Professor of Anthropology and Human Relations at Dartmouth College James Piscatori is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth

Table of Contents

Introduction

Social Theory in the Study of Muslim Societies

Doctrines of Travel

The Obligation to Emigrate: The Doctrine of Hijra in Islamic Law

The Search for Knowledge in Medieval Muslim Societies: A Comparative Approach

Travel Accounts

The Ambivalence of Rihla: Community Integration and Self-definition in Moroccan Travel Accounts, 1300-1800

The Pilgrimage Remembered: South Asian Accounts of the Hajj

Pilgrims and Migrants

Patterns of Muslim Pilgrimage from Malaysia, 1885-1985

The Hijra from Russia and the Balkans: The Process of Self-definition in the Late Ottoman State

Shifting Centres andm Emergent Identities: Turkey and Germany in the Lives of Turkish Gastarbeiter

Saints, Scholars and Travel

Pedigrees and Paradigms: Scholarly Credentials among the Dyula of the Northern Ivory Coast

Between Cairo and the Algerian Kabylia: The Rahmaniyya tariqa, 1715-1800

Saints and Shrines, Politics and Culture: A Morocco-Israel Comparison

Ziyaret: Gender, Movement and Exchange in a Turkish Community Nancy Tapper Annotated

Bibliography

Glossary

Index

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