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Muslim travellers: pilgrimage, migration, and the religious imagination

Dale F. Eickelman and James P. Piscatori c1990 © University of California Press
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Series
  • ATLA Special Series
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520910805 (ebook)
  • 9780520072527 (paper)
  • 9780520070196 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Comparative/World
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  • Frontmatter
  • List of illustrations (page vii)
  • Notes on Contributors (page viii)
  • Note on transliteration (page xi)
  • Preface (page xii)
  • Introduction
    • 1 Social theory in the study of Muslim societies (Dale F. Eickelman and James Piscatori, page 3)
  • Part one: Doctrines of travel
    • 2 The obligation to migrate: the doctrine of hijra in Islamic law (Muhammad Khalid Masud, page 29)
    • 3 The search for knowledge in medieval Muslim societies: a comparative approach (Sam I. Gellens, page 50)
  • Part two: Travel accounts
    • 4 The ambivalence of rihla: community integration and self-definition in Moroccan travel accounts, 1300-1800 (Abderrahmane El Moudden, page 69)
    • 5 The pilgrimage remembered: South Asian accounts of the hajj (Barbara D. Metcalf, page 85)
  • Part three: Pilgrims and migrants
    • 6 Patterns of Muslim pilgrimage from Malaysia, 1885-1985 (Mary Byrne McDonnell, page 111)
    • 7 The hijra from Russia and the Balkans: the process of self-definition in the late Ottoman state (Kemal H. Karpat, page 131)
    • 8 Shifting centres and emergent identities: Turkey and Germany in the lives of Turkish Gastarbeiter (Ruth Mandel, page 153)
  • Part four: Saints, scholars, and travel
    • 9 Pedigrees and paradigms: scholarly credentials among the Dyula of the northern Ivory Coast (Robert Launay, page 175)
    • 10 Between Cairo and the Algerian Kabylia: the Rahmaniyya tariqa, 1715-1800 (Julia A. Clancy-Smith, page 200)
    • 11 Saints and shrines, politics, and culture: a Morocco-Israel comparison (Alex Weingrod, page 217)
    • 12 Ziyaret: gender, movement, and exchange in a Turkish community (Nancy Tapper, page 236)
  • Annotated bibliography of related studies (page 256)
  • Glossary (page 264)
  • Index (page 271)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAS 50.3 (Aug. 1991): 636-637 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-9118%28199108%2950%3A3%3C636%3AMTPMAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T
ETH 39.3 (Summer 1992): 393-394 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0014-1801%28199222%2939%3A3%3C393%3AMTPMAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9
AE 20.2 (May 1993): 421-422 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-0496%28199305%2920%3A2%3C421%3AMTPMAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-1
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