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Muslim Travellers, No 9: Muslim travellers (Hardcover)
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Muslim Travellers, No 9: Muslim travellers (Hardcover)
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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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