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The Hajj : The Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Places (F.E. Peters)

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ISBN: 069102619X
Author: F.E. Peters
Publisher: Princeton University Press (1995)
Pages: 430 Binding: Paperback

Description from the publisher:

Among the duties God imposes upon every Muslim capable of doing so is a pilgrimage to the holy places in and around Mecca in Arabia. Not only is it a religious ritual filled with blessings for the millions who make the journey annually, but it is also a social, political, and commercial experience that for centuries has set in motion a flood of travelers across the world's continents. Whatever its outcome--spiritual enrichment, cultural exchange, financial gain or ruin--the road to Mecca has long been an exhilarating human adventure. By collecting the firsthand accounts of these travelers and shaping their experiences into a richly detailed narrative, F. E. Peters here provides an unparalleled literary history of the central ritual of Islam from its remote pre-Islamic origins to the end of the Hashimite Kingdom of the Hijaz in 1926.

Reviews:

"Peters's The Hajj provides a clear and accurate picture of the organization of [Muslim] rituals. His book is ... sufficiently comprehensive to replace older accounts of the Hajj. By reading the sources it cites, one can follow the key rituals in some detail."--Robert Irwin, The London Review of Books

"A strong impression of the powerful impact of the pilgrimage on all who witnessed it."--Francis Robinson, The Times Literary Supplement

Table of Contents:

The Hajj:
The Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Places

F. E. Peters

Book Description | Reviews

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

List of Illustrations
The Hajj in Early Photo Documents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Maps
Ch. I Origins 3
The Religion of Abraham 3
The Primitive Sanctuary 9
Arabian Paganism 19
Muhammad and the Hajj 38
Ch. II Mecca and the Ways Thither 60
Changes in the Haram 60
The Paths to Mecca 71
The Ways from Iraq 73
The Syrian Hajj 79
The Hajj Route from Egypt 86
The Interior Arabian Routes 98
Ch. III The Medieval Hajj (1100-1400 C.E.) 109
Ibn Jubayr on the Hajj in 1183-1184 109
Entering the State of Ihram 114
The Pilgrimage to Arafat (13 March 1184) 119
The Umra of Rajab 129
Medina the Radiant 137
Ch. IV Under New Auspices 144
The Syrian Pilgrimage 145
The Carriage and Care of Pilgrims 149
The Bedouin Problem 157
The Egyptian Pilgrimage 162
Iranians Make the Hajj 172
The Caravan as Marketplace in Early Ottoman Times 180
The Red Sea Crossing 184
Ali Bey in Mecca (1807) 194
The Wahhabis in Mecca 197
Ch. V Through European Eyes: Holy City and Hajj in the Nineteenth Century 206
On Making the Hajj under Pretense 206
Charles Doughty on the Hajj 223
On First Arriving in Mecca 229
The Haram and Its Denizens 233
The Pilgrimage of 1842 248
Back from Arafat 252
A Visit to Medina 257
Ch. VI Steamships and Cholera: The Hajj in Modern Times 266
The End of the Traditional Hajj 266
Arrangements Large and Small 272
Getting There: Transportation on Sea and Land 282
Health and the Hajj 301
Ch. VII The Great War and After 316
The Hijaz Railway 316
Wartime Pilgrimages 321
The Postwar Hajj 331
The Wahhabi Pilgrimage of 1925

The Hajj : The Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Places (F.E. Peters)

The Hajj:The Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Places

The Hajj:
The Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Places