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The five daily prayers (Salāt) that constitute the second pillar of Islam deeply pervade the everyday life of observant Muslims. Until now, however, no general study has analyzed the rules governing Salāt, the historical dimensions of its practice and the rich variety of ways that it has been interpreted within the Islamic tradition. Marion Holmes Katz's richly textured book offers a broad historical survey of the rules, values and interpretations relating to Salāt. This innovative study on the subject examines the different ways in which prayer has been understood in Islamic law, Sufi mysticism and Islamic philosophy. Katz's book also goes beyond the spiritual realm to analyze the political dimensions of prayer, including scholars' concerns about the righteousness and piety of rulers. The last chapter raises significant issues around gender roles, including the question of women's participating in and leading public worship. This book will resonate with students of Islamic history and comparative religion.

Prayer --- Salat --- Islam --- Salat. --- Pillars of Islam --- Prayer (Islam) --- Islam. --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Prayer - Islam

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Islam --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- pilgrimages --- Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Customs and practices --- Hadj --- Hajj --- Mecca, Pilgrimage to --- Pillars of Islam --- Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages - Saudi Arabia - Mecca --- Islam - Customs and practices

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"This book investigates female Muslims pilgrimage practices and how these relate to women's mobility, social relations, identities, and the power structures that shape women's lives. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and regional expertise, it offers in-depth investigation of the gendered dimensions of Muslim pilgrimage and the life-worlds of female pilgrims. With a variety of case studies, the contributors explore the experiences of female pilgrims to Mecca and other pilgrimage sites, and how these are embedded in historical and current contexts of globalisation and transnational mobility. This volume will be relevant to a broad audience of researchers across pilgrimage, gender, religious, and Islamic studies"--

Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Muslim women --- Women in Islam --- Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages - Saudi Arabia - Mecca --- Muslim women - Case studies --- Women in Islam - Case studies --- Hadj --- Hajj --- Mecca, Pilgrimage to --- Pillars of Islam --- Religions --- Religion

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Narrating the pilgrimage to Mecca discusses a wide variety of historical and contemporary personal accounts of the pilgrimage to Mecca, most of which presented in English for the first time. The book addresses how being situated in a specific cultural context and moment in history informs the meanings attributed to the pilgrimage experience. The various contributions reflect on how, in their stories, pilgrims draw on multiple cultural discourses and practices that shape their daily lifeworlds to convey the ways in which the pilgrimage to Mecca speaks to their senses and moves them emotionally. Together, the written memoirs and oral accounts discussed in the book offer unique insights in Islam’s rich and evolving tradition of hajj and ʿumra storytelling. Contributors Kholoud Al-Ajarma, Piotr Bachtin, Vladimir Bobrovnikov, Marjo Buitelaar, Nadia Caidi, Simon Coleman, Thomas Ecker, Zahir Janmohamed, Khadija Kadrouch-Outmany, Ammeke Kateman, Yahya Nurgat, Jihan Safar, Neda Saghaee, Leila Seurat, Richard van Leeuwen and Miguel Ángel Vázquez.

Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages.  --- Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Hadj --- Hajj --- Mecca, Pilgrimage to --- Pillars of Islam --- Islamic pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Muslim --- Muslim travelers --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages.

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With the advent of the steamship, repeated outbreaks of cholera marked oceanic pilgrimages to Mecca as a dangerous form of travel and a vehicle for the globalization of epidemic diseases. European, especially British Indian, officials also feared that lengthy sojourns in Arabia might expose their Muslim subjects to radicalizing influences from anticolonial dissidents and pan-Islamic activists. European colonial empires’ newfound ability to set the terms of hajj travel not only affected the lives of millions of pilgrims but also dramatically challenged the Ottoman Empire, the world’s only remaining Muslim imperial power.Michael Christopher Low analyzes the late Ottoman hajj and Hijaz region as transimperial spaces, reshaped by the competing forces of Istanbul’s project of frontier modernization and the extraterritorial reach of British India’s steamship empire in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea. Imperial Mecca recasts Ottoman Arabia as a distant, unstable semiautonomous frontier that Istanbul struggled to modernize and defend against the onslaught of colonial steamship mobility. As it turned out, steamships carried not just pilgrims, passports, and microbes, but the specter of legal imperialism and colonial intervention. Over the course of roughly a half century from the 1850s through World War I, British India’s fear of the hajj as a vector of anticolonial subversion gradually gave way to an increasingly sophisticated administrative, legal, and medical protectorate over the steamship hajj, threatening to eclipse the Ottoman state and Caliphate’s prized legitimizing claim as protector of Islam’s most holy places. Drawing on a wide range of Ottoman and British archival sources, this book sheds new light on the transimperial and global histories traversed along the pilgrimage to Mecca.

Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Islamic pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Muslim --- Muslim travelers --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Hadj --- Hajj --- Mecca, Pilgrimage to --- Pillars of Islam --- Hejaz (Saudi Arabia) --- al-Ḥijāz (Saudi Arabia) --- Hedjaz (Saudi Arabia) --- Ḥid̲jāz (Saudi Arabia) --- Ḥijāz (Saudi Arabia) --- History. --- Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages - Saudi Arabia - Mecca. --- Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages - Indian Ocean Region. --- Hejaz (Saudi Arabia) - History. --- Great Britain - Relations - Saudi Arabia. --- Saudi Arabia - Relations - Great Britain. --- Great Britain - Foreign relations - Turkey. --- Turkey - Foreign relations - Great Britain. --- Great Britain --- Saudi Arabia --- Turkey