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The British Empire at its height governed more than half the
world's Muslims. It was a political imperative for the Empire to
present itself to Muslims as a friend and protector, to take
seriously what one scholar called its role as "the greatest
Mohamedan power in the world." Few tasks were more important than
engagement with the pilgrimage to Mecca. Every year, tens of
thousands of Muslims set out for Mecca from imperial territories
throughout Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, from the Atlantic
Ocean to the South China Sea. Men and women representing all
economic classes and scores of ethnic and linguistic groups made
extraordinary journeys across waterways, deserts, and savannahs,
creating huge challenges for officials charged with the
administration of these pilgrims. They had to balance the religious
obligation to travel against the desire to control the pilgrims'
movements, and they became responsible for the care of those who
ran out of money. John Slight traces the Empire's complex
interactions with the Hajj from the 1860s, when an outbreak of
cholera led Britain to engage reluctantly in medical regulation of
pilgrims, to the Suez Crisis of 1956. The story draws on a varied
cast of characters-Richard Burton, Thomas Cook, the Begums of
Bhopal, Lawrence of Arabia, and frontline imperial officials, many
of them Muslim-and gives voice throughout to the pilgrims
themselves. The British Empire and the Hajj is a crucial resource
for understanding how this episode in imperial history was
experienced by rulers and ruled alike.
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In this landmark book, first published in English in 1958,
renowned scholar of religion Mircea Eliade lays the groundwork for
a Western understanding of Yoga. Drawing on years of study and
experience in India, Eliade provides a comprehensive survey of Yoga
in theory and practice from its earliest antecedents in the Vedas
through the twentieth century.
A new introduction by David Gordon White provides invaluable
insight into Eliade's life and work, highlighting the key moments
in Eliade's academic and spiritual education, as well as the
personal experiences that shaped his worldview. "Yoga" is not only
one of Eliade's most important books, it is also his most
personal--the only one to analyze a religious tradition that he had
truly lived.
This brief introduction to Judaism is designed to help readers
understand this important religious tradition. With both nuance and
balance, this text provides broad coverage of various forms of
Judaism with an arresting layout with rich colors. It offers both
historical overviews and modern perspectives on Jewish beliefs and
practices. The user-friendly content is enhanced by charts of
religious festivals, historic timelines, updated maps, and a useful
glossary. It is ideal for courses on Judaism and will be a useful,
concise reference for all readers eager to know more about this
important religious tradition and its place in our contemporary
world.
The book examines the history of the genesis of those texts in the
Old Testament where a oeThe Ark of the Covenanta occurs. In these
texts, fewer sources have turned out to be historically reliable
than was hitherto assumed. It can be assumed that the Ark never
stood in King Solomona (TM)s Temple. Rather, the majority of the
texts bear witness to the struggle of nascent Judaism with the old
traditions. This can be seen in exemplary fashion in the
(unsuccessful) research into the contents of the Ark. One final
chapter is then devoted to the incidence of the Ark in the texts
from Qumran on the Dead Sea.
Michael Wolfe's "exemplary" (Library Journal) collection of
historical writings on the Hajj, now updated with a new
introduction by Reza Aslan. Since its inception in the seventh
century, the pilgrimage to Mecca, or the Hajj, has been the central
theme in a large body of Islamic travel literature. Beginning with
the European Renaissance, it has also been the subject for a
handful of adventurous writers from the West who, through
conversion or connivance, managed to slip inside the walls of a
city forbidden to non-Muslims. One Thousand Roads to Mecca collects
significant works by observant travel writers from the East and
West over the last ten centuries. The two very different literary
traditions form distinct sides of a spirited conversation in which
Mecca is the common destination and Islam the common subject of
inquiry. Excerpted works include travel narratives by Ibn Jubayr,
Ibn Battuta, J. L. Burckhardt, Richard Burton, the Begum of Bhopal,
John Keene, Winifred Stegar, Muhammad Asad, Harry St. John Philby,
Lady Evelyn Cobbald, Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Malcolm X, and Michael
Wolfe.
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