Narrating the Pilgrimage to Mecca

Historical and Contemporary Accounts
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-51316-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 4436 g

Reihe: Leiden Studies in Islam and Society

Narrating the pilgrimage to Mecca discusses a wide variety of historical and contemporary personal accounts of the pilgrimage to Mecca, most of which presented in English for the first time. The book addresses how being situated in a specific cultural context and moment in history informs the meanings attributed to the pilgrimage experience. The various contributions reflect on how, in their stories, pilgrims draw on multiple cultural discourses and practices that shape their daily lifeworlds to convey the ways in which the pilgrimage to Mecca speaks to their senses and moves them emotionally. Together, the written memoirs and oral accounts discussed in the book offer unique insights in Islam’s rich and evolving tradition of hajj and 'umra storytelling.

Contributors

Kholoud Al-Ajarma, Piotr Bachtin, Vladimir Bobrovnikov, Marjo Buitelaar, Nadia Caidi, Simon Coleman, Thomas Ecker, Zahir Janmohamed, Khadija Kadrouch-Outmany, Ammeke Kateman, Yahya Nurgat, Jihan Safar, Neda Saghaee, Leila Seurat, Richard van Leeuwen and Miguel Ángel Vázquez.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buitelaar, Marjo

Leeuwen, Richard van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Transcriptions of Arabic and Other Terms

Introduction. Narrativizing a Sensational Journey: Pilgrimage to Mecca

Marjo Buitelaar

Part 1 Historical Accounts

1 Hajj Narratives as a Discursive Tradition

Richard van Leeuwen

2 ‘Coplas del peregrino de Puey Monçón’: A Sixteenth-Century Spanish Poem about the Hajj

Miguel Ángel Vázquez

3 Sufism and the Hajj: Symbolic Meanings and Transregional Networks; Two Examples from the 16th and 18th Centuries

Neda Saghaee and Richard van Leeuwen

4 Religious Emotion and Embodied Piety in the Ottoman Turkish Hajj Accounts of Evliya Çelebi (1611–c. 1683) and Yusuf Nabi (1642–1712)

Yahya Nurgat

5 Comparing Two Persian Hajj Travelogues: Ya?qub Mirza (1868) and Farhad Mirza (1875/76)

Thomas Ecker

6 Othering and Being Othered: Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Hajj Accounts by Iranian Shi?i Women (1880–1901)

Piotr Bachtin

7 Experiencing the Hajj in an Age of Change: Tuning the Emotions in Several Hajj Accounts of Pilgrims Travelling from Morocco and Egypt in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Ammeke Kateman

8 Inconveniences of the Hajj: The Arduous Journey of a Moroccan Shaykh in 1929

Richard van Leeuwen

9 From Moscow to Mecca: Entangled Soviet Narratives of Pilgrimage in the Unlikely 1965 ?ajjname of Fazliddin Muhammadiev

Vladimir Bobrovnikov

Part 2 Contemporary Accounts

10 Coming of Age in Mecca: Pilgrimage in the Life Stories of Two Young Adult Dutch Pilgrims

Marjo Buitelaar

11 ‘Beyond Words’: Moroccan Pilgrims’ Narrations about Their Ineffable Hajj Experiences through Stories about the Senses

Kholoud Al-Ajarma

12 Newlyweds and Other Young French Muslims Traveling to Mecca: Desires, Motivations and Senses of Belonging

Jihan Safar and Leila Seurat

13 Patience and Pilgrimage: Dutch Hajj Pilgrims’ Emergent and Maturing Stories about the Virtue of ?abr

Marjo Buitelaar and Khadija Kadrouch-Outmany

14 Crowded Outlets: A North American Khoja Shi?i Ithna Asheri Pilgrim’s Auto-ethnographic Memoir

Zahir Janmohamed

15 Curating Post-hajj Experiences of North American Pilgrims: Information Practices as Community-Building Rituals

Nadia Caidi

16 Mediating Mecca: Moroccan and Moroccan-Dutch Pilgrims’ Use of the Smartphone

Marjo Buitelaar and Kholoud Al-Ajarma

Epilogue. Narrating Mecca: Between Sense and Presence

Simon Coleman

Glossary

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marjo Buitelaar is professor of Contemporary Islam at the University of Groningen. Her most recent co-edited books are Muslim Women’s Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond (Routledge, 2021, with Manja Stephan-Emmrich and Viola Thimm) and Religion as Relation: Studying Religion in Context (Equinox Publishing, 2021, with Peter Berger and Kim Knibbe).

Richard van Leeuwen recently retired as lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on Middle Eastern history and Arabic literature. Most recently he published The Thousand and One Nights in 20th Century Fiction (Brill, 2018).

Contributors

Kholoud Al-Ajarma, Piotr Bachtin, Vladimir Bobrovnikov, Marjo Buitelaar, Nadia Caidi, Simon Coleman, Thomas Ecker, Zahir Janmohamed, Khadija Kadrouch-Outmany, Ammeke Kateman, Yahya Nurgat, Jihan Safar, Neda Saghaee, Leila Seurat, Richard van Leeuwen and Miguel Ángel Vázquez.