Golden roads
Subtitle: migration, pilgrimage, and travel in mediaeval and modern Islam
By: edited by Ian Richard Netton.
Contributors: Netton, Ian Richard.; University of Exeter. Dept. of Arabic and Islamic Studies.
Publisher: Curzon Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Richmond, Surrey, U.K
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 193
Subjects: Travel -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- Congresses.; Emigration and immigration -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- Congresses.; Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: The triple themes of this book - migration, pilgrimage and travel in Islam - are as old as the religion itself. The Prophet Muhammad made his famous archetypal "Hijra" (migration) from Mecca to Medina in 622 AD, a year which became the Year 1 of the Muslim lunar calendar; the "Hajj" (pilgrimage) of Farewell enacted by the Prophet in 632 AD provided the paradigm for all future pilgrimages to the sacred Ka'ba in Mecca; while a much quoted hadith portrays the Founder of Islam counselling his followers that they should seek knowledge even as far as China. The concept of "Rihla" (travel) in search of knowledge thus became a primary motif in the lives of many medieval - and modern - Muslim scholars, jurists, collectors of tradition and, indeed, ordinary people. The editor is also author of "A Popular Dictionary of Islam."
Notes: Contributions in English and French.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Most contributions were first presented at the Fourth International Colloquium of the Dept. of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Univ. of Exeter Sept. 19-22, 1989.--P. xi.