Focusing on travel in Muslim societies from Malaysia to West Africa to Western Europe from the first centuries of Islam to the present, the contributors to this edition investigate the role of religious doctrine in motivating travel. While pilgrimage is usually seen as travel with a uniquely religious purpose, this exploration of the role of travel in Muslim societies and in Islamic doctrine shows that other forms of travel - for learning, visits to shrines, exile, and labor migration - also shape the religious imagination ...
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Focusing on travel in Muslim societies from Malaysia to West Africa to Western Europe from the first centuries of Islam to the present, the contributors to this edition investigate the role of religious doctrine in motivating travel. While pilgrimage is usually seen as travel with a uniquely religious purpose, this exploration of the role of travel in Muslim societies and in Islamic doctrine shows that other forms of travel - for learning, visits to shrines, exile, and labor migration - also shape the religious imagination.Conversely, travel for specifically religious purposes often has important economic and political consequences. The contributors explore the transnational and local significance of pilgrimage and migration, showing how these journeys heighten a universal sense of "being Muslim" while also inspiring the redefinition of the frontiers of sect, language, territory, and nation. In this way, encounters with Muslim "others" have been as important in shaping community self-definition as encounters with European "others". Linking pilgrimage and migration to issues such as class, ethnicity, and gender, "Muslim Travellers" will be of special value to students of history and anthropology and to those in cross-disciplinary courses such as Islamic civilization and world religions.
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VERY GOOD in VERY GOOD jacket. Size: 6x1x9; 281 clean, unmarked, tight pages; cover is clean and sturdy; very light shelf and corner wear on dust jacket.
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FINE in Fine jacket. Pilgrimage, Migration, and the Religious Imagination [Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies, No. 9] xxii, 281 pp. 12mo, black cloth, silver gilt lettering. Pristine copy in like dust jacket.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Not ex-lib. Hardcover with shiny black paper over boards, in black and white jacket with blue-tinted figure of 17th-century Turkish tile to front, 8vo. xxii + 281pp. Index, bibliography, glossary. Endnotes and references with chapters. 10 figures throughout text. Fine/Fine. Book has mild scuffing to page fore edges; else as new: clean, sharp and unmarked, though with stiff binding and pages. Jacket has mild softening to upper spine end. Else as new in Brodart.
