Season in Mecca Narrative of a Pilgrimage

Name: Season in Mecca Narrative of a Pilgrimage
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ISBN: 9780745637891

ISBN-10: 0745637892

ISBN-13: 9780745637891

Edition: 2006

Authors: Abdellah Hammoudi

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In 1999, the Moroccan scholar Abdellah Hammoudi, trained in Paris and teaching in America, decided to go on the pilgrimage to Mecca. He wanted to observe the hajj as an anthropologist but also to experience it as an ordinary pilgrim, and to write about it for both Muslims and non-Muslims. Here is his intimate, intense, and detailed account of the Hajj--a rare and important document by a subtle, learned, and sympathetic writer.Hammoudi describes not just the adventure, the human pressures, and the social tumult--everything from the early preparations to the last climactic scenes in the holy shrines of Medina and Mecca--but also the intricate politics and amazing complexity of the entire…

Book details

Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Polity Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.62" wide x 8.24" long x 0.89" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English