The Hajj : collected essays /
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Language: English
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London :
British Museum,
2013.
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Research publication ;
193.
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Call Number: BP187.3 .H2425 2013
Table of Contents:
- •Nasser D. Khalili •Introduction / •Venetia Porter •Religion, Early History and Politics •The Religious and Social Importance of Hajj / •Muhammad 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 Millwright •Royal Ottoman Inscriptions on the Istanbul to Mecca Pilgrimage Route (Darb al-Hajj al-Shami) / •Mehmet Tutuncu •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 •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 / •Muhammad H. Al Mojan •The Mahmal Revisited / •Venetia Porter •An Early Photograph of the Egyptian Mahmal in Mecca / •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 / •Sean McLoughlin.