The Hajj
Subtitle: collected essays
By: edited by Venetia Porter and Liana Saif
Series: Research publication -- 193; Research publication (British Museum) -- no. 193.
Publisher: British Museum
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780861591930
Subjects: Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages; History
Description: Following on the British Museum's critically acclaimed exhibition Hajj: journey to the heart of Islam, this volume provides over thirty papers on the history and significance of the Hajj, spanning history, politics, archaeology, pilgrims' journeys, art, architecture, photography and material culture. This is a major multi-disciplinary study and a key reference work for anyone with an academic or personal interest in the Hajj.
Notes: "Arts & Humanities Research Council."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-273) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface  -- Nasser D. Khalili; title: Introduction  -- Venetia Porter; title: Religion, Early History and Politics --; title: The Religious and Social Importance of Hajj  -- Muhammad Abdel Haleem; title: The Hajj before Muhammad: Journeys to Mecca in Muslim narratives of Pre-Islamic History  -- Peter Webb; title: The official Announcement of an Umayyad Caliph's Successful Pilgrimage to Mecca  -- Harry Munt; title: By Land and Sea: Archaeology, Hajj Routes and Ships --; title: The lost Fort of Mafraq and the Syrian Hajj Route in the 16th century  -- Andrew Petersen; title: Trade and the Syrian Hajj between the 12th and the early 20th Centuries: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives  -- Marcus Millwright; title: Royal Ottoman Inscriptions on the Istanbul to Mecca Pilgrimage Route (Darb al-Hajj al-Shami)  -- Mehmet Tutuncu; title: From Iraq to the Hijaz in the Early Islamic Period: History and Archaeology of the Basran Hajj Road and the Way(s) through Kuwait  -- Andrew Blair and Brain Ulrich; title: The Khans of the Egyptian Hajj Route in the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods  -- Sami Saleh Abd al-Malik; title: A Longing for Mecca: The Trans-Saharan Hajj and the Caravan Towns of West Africa  -- Sam Nixon; title: Hajj Ports of the Red Sea: A Historical and Archaeological Overview  -- Charles Le Quesne; title: Ships that Sailed the Red Sea in Medieval and Early Modern Islam: Perception and Reception  -- Dionisius Agius; title: Travellers' Tales and Colonial Histories --; title: Travel to Mecca from Southern Oman in the Pre-motorized Period  -- Janet C. E. Watson; title: The Rail Hajjis: The Trans-Siberian Railway and the Long Way to Mecca  -- Nile Green; title: The Colonial Hajj: France and Algeria, 1830- 1962  -- Benjamin Claude Brower; title: The Hajj and the Raj: From Thomas Cook to Bombay's Protector of Pilgrims  -- John Slight; title: Pilgrim Pioneers: Britons on Hajj before 1940  -- William Facey; title: Eldon Rutter and the Modern Hajj Narrative  -- Michael Wolfe; title: The Material and Contemporary Culture of Hajj --; title: Architectural influence and the Hajj  -- Jonathan M Bloom; title: Depictions of the Haramayn on Ottoman tiles: Content and Context  -- Charlotte Maury; title: Inscribing the Hajj  -- Sheila Blair; title: Weaving for the Hajj under the Mamluks  -- Maria Sardi; title: Dar al-Kiswa al-Sharifa: Administration and Production  -- Nahla Nassar; title: The Textiles Made for the Prophet's Mosque at Medina ; title: Muhammad H. Al Mojan --; title: The Mahmal Revisited  -- Venetia Porter; title: An Early Photograph of the Egyptian Mahmal in Mecca  -- Arnoud Vrolijk; title: The Islamic Pilgrimage in the Manuscript Literatures of Southeast Asia  -- Jan Just Witkam; title: Ottoman-period Manuscripts from the Haramayn  -- Tim Stanley; title: Souvenirs and Gifts : Collecting Modern Hajj  -- Qasira M. Khan; title: Organizing Hajj-going from Contemporary Britain -- Sean McLoughlin.