Every year hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from all over the
world converge on Mecca and its precincts to perform the rituals
associated with the Hajj and have been doing so since the seventh
century. In this volume, scholars from a range of fields -
including history, religion, anthropology, and literature -
together tell the story of the Hajj and explain its significance as
one of the key events in the Muslim religious calendar. By
outlining the parameters of the Hajj from its beginnings to the
present day, the contributors have produced a global study that
takes in the vast geographies of belief in the world of Islam. This
volume pays attention to the diverse aspects of the Hajj, as lived
every year by hundreds of millions of Muslims, touching on its
rituals, its regional forms, the role of gender, its representation
in art, and its organization on a global scale.
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