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9780520070196: Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0520070194 ISBN 13: 9780520070196
Verlag: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR, 1990

Inhaltsangabe

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 travelfor learning, visits to shrines, exile, and labor migrationalso 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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dale F. Eickelman is Ralph and Richard Lazarus Professor of Anthropology and Human Relations at Dartmouth College.James Piscatori is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at University College of Wales in Aberystwyth.

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Verlag
UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR
Erscheinungsdatum
1990
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0520070194
ISBN 13 
9780520070196
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
310
Herausgeber
Eickelman Dale F., Piscatori James
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Weitere beliebte Ausgaben desselben Titels

9780520072527: Muslim Travellers: Pilgrimage, Migration, and the Religious Imagination (Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies, 9, Band 9)

Vorgestellte Ausgabe

ISBN 10:  0520072529 ISBN 13:  9780520072527
Verlag: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR, 1990
Softcover