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The Hajj: collected essays

The Hajj: collected essays
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ISBN 0861591933 (pbk.)
9780861591930 (pbk.)
Title The Hajj : collected essays / edited by Venetia Porter and Liana Saif
Publisher London : British Museum, 2013
Physical desc. vii, [3], 278 p. ; ill. (chiefly col.), maps (some col.), plans ; 30 cm.
Series Research publication (British Museum) 193
Note British Museum research publication 193.
Based on papers from a conference held in conjunction with the exhibition, Hajj: journey to the heart of Islam, in 2012.
"Published with the kind assistance of the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Professor David Khalili" -- T.p. verso.
CBL illustrations: p. 200, pl. 6 (Per 245, f. 245b).
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-273) and index.
Contents Introduction / Venetia Porter -- Religion, early history and politics. The religious and social importance of Hajj / M. Abdel Haleem -- The Hajj before Muhammad: journeys to Mecca in Muslim narratives of pre-Islamic history / Peter Webb -- The official announcement of an Umayyad caliph's successful pilgrimage to Mecca / Harry Munt -- By land and sea: archaeology, Hajj routes and ships. The lost fort of Mafraq and the Syrian Hajj route in the 16th century / Andrew Petersen -- Trade and the Syrian Hajj between the 12th and the early 20th centuries: historical and archaeological perspectives / Marcus Milwright -- Royal Ottoman inscriptions on the Istanbul to Mecca pilgrimage route (Darb al-Hajj al-Shami) / Mehmet Tütüncü -- From Iraq to the Hijaz in the early Islamic period: history and archaeology of the Basran Hajj road and the way(s) through Kuwait / Andrew Blair and Brain Ulrich -- The khans of the Egyptian Hajj route in the Mamluk and Ottoman periods / Sami Saleh ‘Abd al-Malik (Translated by Liana Saif) -- A longing for Mecca: the Trans-Saharan Hajj and the caravan towns of West Africa / Sam Nixon -- Hajj ports of the Red Sea: a historical and archaeological overview / Charles Le Quesne -- Ships that sailed the Red Sea in medieval and early modern Islam: perception and reception / Dionisius Agius -- Travellers’ Tales and Colonial Histories. Travel to Mecca from southern Oman in the pre-motorized period / Janet C. E. Watson -- The rail hajjis: the Trans-Siberian railway and the long way to Mecca / Nile Green -- The colonial Hajj: France and Algeria, 1830-1962 / Benjamin Claude Brower -- The Hajj and the Raj: from Thomas Cook to Bombay’s protector of pilgrims / John Slight -- Pilgrim pioneers: Britons on Hajj before 1940 / William Facey -- Eldon Rutter and the modern Hajj narrative / Michael Wolfe -- The material and contemporary culture of Hajj. Architectural 'influence' and the Hajj / Jonathan M. Bloom -- Depictions of the Haramayn on Ottoman tiles: content and context / Charlotte Maury -- Inscribing the Hajj / Sheila Blair -- Weaving for the Hajj under the Mamluks / Maria Sardi -- Dar al-Kiswa al-Sharifa: administration and production / Nahla Nassar -- The textiles made for the Prophet’s mosque at Medina: a preliminary study of their origins, history and style / Muhammad H. Al Mojan (translated by Liana Saif) -- The Mahmal Revisited / Venetia Porter -- An early photograph of the Egyptian Mahmal in Mecca: reflections on intellectual property and modernity in the work of C. Snouck Hurgronje / Arnoud Vrolijk -- The Islamic pilgrimage in the manuscript literatures of Southeast Asia / Jan Just Witkam -- Ottoman-period manuscripts from the Haramayn / Tim Stanley -- Souvenirs and gifts: collecting modern Hajj / Qasira M. Khan -- Organizing Hajj: going from contemporary Britain: a changing industry, pilgrim markets and the politics of recognition / Seán McLoughlin
Subject Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 245
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Saudi Arabia -- Mecca -- History
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