Pilgrimage in Islam: traditional and modern practices

✍ Scribed by Arjana, Sophia Rose

Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Series: Foundations of Islam
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Muslim pilgrims travel to a wide variety of places, not only the holy cities of Mecca and Karbala. Around the world there are countless sacred sites, including the graves of important historical and religious individuals, the tombs of saints, and natural sites such as mountaintops and springs. All of these places are located within an Islamic universe that is present with the spirit of Allah and holds the promise of barakat – the blessings that pilgrims often seek.
Challenging the simplistic presentations of Islamic pilgrimage existent in much of the scholarship, Dr. Sophia Rose Arjana explores the diverse traditions practiced by the 1.7 billion Muslims across the world. Issues such as time, space, tourism, virtual pilgrimages, and the use of computers and smartphone apps all come under consideration in this wide-ranging study. Lucidly written, informative and accessible, Islamic Pilgrimages is perfectly suited to students, scholars and the general reader seeking a...

✦ Subjects

Haddsch;Heiligtum;Islam;Moderne;Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages;Ritual;Tradition;Travel / Religious aspects / Islam;Wallfahrt

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Moroccan Islam: Tradition and Society in

📁 Moroccan Islam: Tradition and Society in a Pilgrimage Center

✍ Dale F. Eickelman 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 University of Texas Press 🌐 English

<p>This book is one of the first comprehensive studies of Islam as locally understood in the Middle East. Specifically, it is concerned with the prevalent North African belief that certain men, called marabouts, have a special relation to God that enables them to serve as intermediaries and to influ

Golden Roads: Migration, Pilgrimage and

📁 Golden Roads: Migration, Pilgrimage and Travel in Medieval and Modern Islam

✍ Ian Rich Netton 📂 Library 📅 1995 🌐 English

Essays on themes (migration, pilgrimage and travel) as old as Islam itself and integral in the development of a cosmopolitan Islamic social order embracing much of Africa and Eurasia.

Traditional Islam In The Modern World

📁 Traditional Islam In The Modern World

✍ Seyyed Hossein Nasr 📂 Library 📅 1990 🏛 Kegan Paul International 🌐 English

Now reprinted, this book is an elaboration and defense of "traditional" Islam, as opposed to the modernist and fundamentalist forms, by one of the best-informed, most articulate Muslims of our time.

Rethinking Tradition in Modern Islamic T

📁 Rethinking Tradition in Modern Islamic Thought

✍ Daniel W. Brown 📂 Library 📅 1999 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

Modern Muslim intellectuals have been trying to reestablish a foundation for the revival of Islamic law. In this fascinating study, Daniel Brown assesses the implications of new approaches to the law on contemporary Islamic revivalist movements, and explores the impact of modernity on attitudes towa

Rethinking Tradition in Modern Islamic T

📁 Rethinking Tradition in Modern Islamic Thought

✍ Daniel W. Brown 📂 Library 📅 1999 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

Modernization, Tradition and Identity: T

📁 Modernization, Tradition and Identity: The Kompilasi Hukum Islam and Legal Practice in the Indonesian Religious Courts

✍ Euis Nurlaelawati 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 Amsterdam University Press 🌐 English

Drawing on Max Weber’s approach to legal rationalization—which stimulated a transfer from the patrimonial tradition of law to a more systematic and rational legal code—Modernization, Tradition and Identity investigates how and why Islamic justice in Indonesia has evolved over the years. Euis Nurla