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The Longest Journey - Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca (Hardcover)
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The Longest Journey - Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca (Hardcover)
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The pilgrimage to Mecca, or Hajj, has been a yearly phenomenon of
great importance in Muslim lands for well over one thousand years.
Each year, millions of pilgrims from throughout the Dar al-Islam,
or Islamic world, stretching from Morocco east to Indonesia, make
the trip to Mecca as one of the five pillars of their faith.
Records for this practice show that the majority of pilgrims in
Islam's earliest centuries came from surrounding polities, such as
Syria, Egypt, and Iraq. Yet by the end of the nineteenth century,
and the beginning of the twentieth, fully half of all pilgrims
making the journey in any one year could come from Southeast Asia.
This is astonishing because of the distances traveled; sailing
ships, and later huge steamers as described in Joseph Conrad's Lord
Jim, plodded across the length of the Indian Ocean to disgorge
pilgrims on Arabian docks. Yet the huge numbers of Southeast Asian
pilgrims may be even more phenomenal if one thinks of the spiritual
distances traveled. The variants of Islam practiced in Southeast
Asia have traditionally been seen as syncretic, making the effort,
expense, and meaning of undertaking the Hajj hugely important in
local life. Millions of Southeast Asians, from Southern Thailand
into Malaysia and Singapore, from Indonesia up through Brunei and
the Southern Philippines, have now made this voyage. More undertake
it every year. The movement of Islam in global spaces has become a
topic of interest to states, scholars, and the educated reading
public for many reasons. The Hajj is still the single largest
transmission variant of Muslim ideologies and fraternity in the
modern world. This book attempts to write an overarching history of
the Hajj from Southeast Asia, encompassing very early times all the
way up until the present.
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