Research Catalog

Title

The Hajj : collected essays / edited by Venetia Porter and Liana Saif.

Publication

London : British Museum, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Porter, Venetia
• Saif, Liana

Description

vii, 278 pages : illustrations (some color); 30 cm.

Series Statement

Research publication, 1747-3640 ; 193

Uniform Title

Research publication (British Museum) ; no. 193.

Subject

• Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages > Saudi Arabia > Mecca > History

Note

• "Arts & Humanities Research Council."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-273) and index.

Contents

Preface / 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.

ISBN

• 9780861591930 (pbk.)
• 0861591933 (pbk.)

LCCN

40023418584

OCLC

• ocn857109543
• 857109543
• SCSB-5738026

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries