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Bezig met laden... A Shi'ite Pilgrimage to Mecca, 1885-1886: Safarnameh of Mirza Mohammed Hosayn Farahanidoor Muhammad Husayn Husayni Farahani
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A detailed account of a 19th-century pilgrimage to Mecca by an Iranian Shi'ite. From the introduction: "It is evocative, lively, delightful, and enormously informative. It offers lavish and meticulous information on the social, political, and economic life of the Middle East of the late nineteenth century. It illuminates Russian officials as they administer the affairs of the Caucasus. It compares and contrasts western political and commercial officers in Egypt, the Levant, and India. It tells us about the Muslims of the Russian empire, the Ottomans, and the Egyptians. It speaks of places and conditions in Arabia, of the Arabs themselves, and also of the thousands of pilgrims who, then as now, come great distances in order to venerate the holy places in Arabia." geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Western accounts of the Hajj, the ritual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, are rare, since access to Mecca is forbidden to non-Muslims. In the Muslim world, however, pilgrimage literature is a well-established genre, dating back to the earliest centuries of the Islamic era. A Shi?ite Pilgrimage to Mecca is taken from the original nineteenth-century Persian manuscript of the Safarnâmeh of Mirzâ Mo?ammad ?osayn Farâhâni, a well-educated, keenly observant, Iranian Shi?ite gentleman. This memoir holds a wealth of social and economic information about Czarist Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Northern Iran, and Arabia. The author is a meticulous observer, recording details of distances, currencies, accommodations, modes of travel, and so on. He records the experiences encountered by pilgrims of his day: physical hardships, disease, generosity and compassion, banditry, hospitality, comradeship, and exaltation. And, without prejudice, he discusses the tensions between the Shi?ites and the Sunnites in the holy places?tensions that still exist and have erupted in bloody clashes during recent pilgrimages. A Shi?ite Pilgrimage to Mecca will appeal to a wide audience of general readers, Middle Eastern scholars, anthropologists, and historians. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)915.604History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography of and travel in Asia Middle EastLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: Geen beoordelingen.Ben jij dit?Word een LibraryThing Auteur. |