Season in Mecca Narrative of a Pilgrimage

Name: Season in Mecca Narrative of a Pilgrimage
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ISBN: 9780809076093

ISBN-10: 0809076098

ISBN-13: 9780809076093

Edition: 2006

Authors: Abdellah Hammoudi, Pascale Ghazaleh

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An unforgettable report on one man's hajj--the sacred rite that brings millions of Muslims to Mecca every year nbsp; 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. nbsp; Hammoudi describes not just the adventure, the human pressures, and the social tumult--everything from the early preparations to the…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 1/10/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946




Departures



Governing Religion



In Training, and Ghosts of the Self



Praying and Shopping



Dead Ends



Denying the Self to the Self, or the Road to Mecca



Untitled



The Unwelcome Archive



Resurrection Before Death



Memory of Finitude



Memory of Violence



Epilogues


Acknowledgments