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Muslim travellers: pilgrimage, migration, and the religious imagination

Piscatori, James P., Eickelman, Dale F., 1942-

Year: c1990.

Publisher: University of California Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

List of illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Note on transliteration

Preface

Introduction

1 Social theory in the study of Muslim societies

Part one: Doctrines of travel

2 The obligation to migrate: the doctrine of hijra in Islamic law

3 The search for knowledge in medieval Muslim societies: a comparative approach

Part two: Travel accounts

4 The ambivalence of rihla: community integration and self-definition in Moroccan travel accounts, 1300-1800

5 The pilgrimage remembered: South Asian accounts of the hajj

Part three: Pilgrims and migrants

6 Patterns of Muslim pilgrimage from Malaysia, 1885-1985

7 The hijra from Russia and the Balkans: the process of self-definition in the late Ottoman state

8 Shifting centres and emergent identities: Turkey and Germany in the lives of Turkish Gastarbeiter

Part four: Saints, scholars, and travel

9 Pedigrees and paradigms: scholarly credentials among the Dyula of the northern Ivory Coast

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

11 Saints and shrines, politics, and culture: a Morocco-Israel comparison

12 Ziyaret: gender, movement, and exchange in a Turkish community

Annotated bibliography of related studies

Glossary

Index

reviews

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Title:

Muslim travellers : pilgrimage, migration, and the religious imagination edited by Dale Eickelman and James Piscatori.

Author:

Piscatori, James P; Eickelman, Dale F., 1942-

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Muslim travellers : pilgrimage, migration, and the religious imagination edited by Dale Eickelman and James Piscatori.
Piscatori, James P, Eickelman, Dale F., 1942-
Berkeley: University of California Press, c1990.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.03197

Subject Headings:

• Travel -- Religious aspects -- Islam
• Emigration and immigration -- Religious aspects -- Islam
• Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages
• Islamic countries -- Emigration and immigration

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