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Muslim Travellers - Pilgrimage, Migration and the Religious Imagination (Hardcover)
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Muslim Travellers - Pilgrimage, Migration and the Religious Imagination (Hardcover)
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Pilgrimage, travel for learning, visits to shrines, exile, and
labour migration shape the religious imagination and in turn are
shaped by it. Some travel, such as pilgrimage, explicitly intended
for religious purposes, has equally important economic and
political consequences. Other travel, not primarily motivated by
religious concerns and thus neglected by many scholars, nonetheless
profoundly influences religious symbols, metaphors, practices and
senses of community. These studies, encompassing Muslim societies
from Malaysia to West Africa, also suggest how encounters with
Muslim `others' have been as important in shaping community
self-definition as encounters with European 'others'. This volume
brings together historians, social scientists and jurists concerned
with pilgrimage, scholarly travel and migration in both medieval
and contemporary Muslim societies and explores basic issues. Can
'Muslim travel' be regarded as a distinct form of social action?
What role does religious doctrine play in motivating travel and how
do doctrinal interpretations differ across time and place? What are
the strengths and limitations of various approaches to
understanding the transnational and local significance of
pilgrimage, migration and other forms of travel? An image of Muslim
tradition and change in local communities in relation to travel
emerges, which competes with the myth of the universality of the
Islamic community.
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