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Narrating the Pilgrimage to Mecca
Historical and Contemporary Accounts
Series: - Leiden Studies in Islam and Society, Volume: 16
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 Islamâs rich and evolving tradition of hajj and Ê¿umra storytelling.
Contributors are: 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 Ãngel Vázquez.
Contributors are: 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 Ãngel Vázquez.
Marjo Buitelaar is professor of Contemporary Islam at the University of Groningen. Her most recent co-edited books are Muslim Womenâs Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond (Routledge, 2021, with Manja Stephan-Emmrich and Viola Thimm) and Religion as Relation: Studying Religion in Context (Equinox Publishing, 2021, with Peter Berger and Kim Knibbe).
Richard van Leeuwen recently retired as lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on Middle Eastern history and Arabic literature. Most recently he published The Thousand and One Nights in 20th Century Fiction (Brill, 2018).
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 Ãngel Vázquez.
Richard van Leeuwen recently retired as lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on Middle Eastern history and Arabic literature. Most recently he published The Thousand and One Nights in 20th Century Fiction (Brill, 2018).
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 Ãngel Vázquez.
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Notes on Transcriptions of Arabic and Other Terms
Introduction. Narrativizing a Sensational Journey: Pilgrimage to Mecca
âMarjo Buitelaar
1 Hajj Narratives as a Discursive Tradition
âRichard van Leeuwen
2 âCoplas del peregrino de Puey Monçónâ: A Sixteenth-Century Spanish Poem about the Hajj
âMiguel Ãngel Vázquez
3 Sufism and the Hajj: Symbolic Meanings and Transregional Networks; Two Examples from the 16th and 18th Centuries
âNeda Saghaee and Richard van Leeuwen
4 Religious Emotion and Embodied Piety in the Ottoman Turkish Hajj Accounts of EvliyÄ ÃelebÄ« (1611âc. 1683) and YÅ«suf NÄbÄ« (1642â1712)
âYahya Nurgat
5 Comparing Two Persian Hajj Travelogues: YaÊ¿qub MirzÄ (1868) and FarhÄd MirzÄ (1875/76)
âThomas Ecker
6 Othering and Being Othered: Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Hajj Accounts by Iranian ShiÊ¿i Women (1880â1901)
âPiotr Bachtin
7 Experiencing the Hajj in an Age of Change: Tuning the Emotions in Several Hajj Accounts of Pilgrims Travelling from Morocco and Egypt in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
âAmmeke Kateman
8 Inconveniences of the Hajj: The Arduous Journey of a Moroccan Shaykh in 1929
âRichard van Leeuwen
9 From Moscow to Mecca: Entangled Soviet Narratives of Pilgrimage in the Unlikely 1965 ḥajjnÄme of Fazliddin Muhammadiev
âVladimir Bobrovnikov
10 Coming of Age in Mecca: Pilgrimage in the Life Stories of Two Young Adult Dutch Pilgrims
âMarjo Buitelaar
11 âBeyond Wordsâ: Moroccan Pilgrimsâ Narrations about Their Ineffable Hajj Experiences through Stories about the Senses
âKholoud Al-Ajarma
12 Newlyweds and Other Young French Muslims Traveling to Mecca: Desires, Motivations and Senses of Belonging
âJihan Safar and Leila Seurat
13 Patience and Pilgrimage: Dutch Hajj Pilgrimsâ Emergent and Maturing Stories about the Virtue of á¹£abr
âMarjo Buitelaar and Khadija Kadrouch-Outmany
14 Crowded Outlets: A North American Khoja ShiÊ¿i Ithna Asheri Pilgrimâs Auto-ethnographic Memoir
âZahir Janmohamed
15 Curating Post-hajj Experiences of North American Pilgrims: Information Practices as Community-Building Rituals
âNadia Caidi
16 Mediating Mecca: Moroccan and Moroccan-Dutch Pilgrimsâ Use of the Smartphone
âMarjo Buitelaar and Kholoud Al-Ajarma
Epilogue. Narrating Mecca: Between Sense and Presence
âSimon Coleman
Glossary
Index
Notes on Contributors
Notes on Transcriptions of Arabic and Other Terms
Introduction. Narrativizing a Sensational Journey: Pilgrimage to Mecca
âMarjo Buitelaar
Part 1 Historical Accounts
1 Hajj Narratives as a Discursive Tradition
âRichard van Leeuwen
2 âCoplas del peregrino de Puey Monçónâ: A Sixteenth-Century Spanish Poem about the Hajj
âMiguel Ãngel Vázquez
3 Sufism and the Hajj: Symbolic Meanings and Transregional Networks; Two Examples from the 16th and 18th Centuries
âNeda Saghaee and Richard van Leeuwen
4 Religious Emotion and Embodied Piety in the Ottoman Turkish Hajj Accounts of EvliyÄ ÃelebÄ« (1611âc. 1683) and YÅ«suf NÄbÄ« (1642â1712)
âYahya Nurgat
5 Comparing Two Persian Hajj Travelogues: YaÊ¿qub MirzÄ (1868) and FarhÄd MirzÄ (1875/76)
âThomas Ecker
6 Othering and Being Othered: Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Hajj Accounts by Iranian ShiÊ¿i Women (1880â1901)
âPiotr Bachtin
7 Experiencing the Hajj in an Age of Change: Tuning the Emotions in Several Hajj Accounts of Pilgrims Travelling from Morocco and Egypt in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
âAmmeke Kateman
8 Inconveniences of the Hajj: The Arduous Journey of a Moroccan Shaykh in 1929
âRichard van Leeuwen
9 From Moscow to Mecca: Entangled Soviet Narratives of Pilgrimage in the Unlikely 1965 ḥajjnÄme of Fazliddin Muhammadiev
âVladimir Bobrovnikov
Part 2 Contemporary Accounts
10 Coming of Age in Mecca: Pilgrimage in the Life Stories of Two Young Adult Dutch Pilgrims
âMarjo Buitelaar
11 âBeyond Wordsâ: Moroccan Pilgrimsâ Narrations about Their Ineffable Hajj Experiences through Stories about the Senses
âKholoud Al-Ajarma
12 Newlyweds and Other Young French Muslims Traveling to Mecca: Desires, Motivations and Senses of Belonging
âJihan Safar and Leila Seurat
13 Patience and Pilgrimage: Dutch Hajj Pilgrimsâ Emergent and Maturing Stories about the Virtue of á¹£abr
âMarjo Buitelaar and Khadija Kadrouch-Outmany
14 Crowded Outlets: A North American Khoja ShiÊ¿i Ithna Asheri Pilgrimâs Auto-ethnographic Memoir
âZahir Janmohamed
15 Curating Post-hajj Experiences of North American Pilgrims: Information Practices as Community-Building Rituals
âNadia Caidi
16 Mediating Mecca: Moroccan and Moroccan-Dutch Pilgrimsâ Use of the Smartphone
âMarjo Buitelaar and Kholoud Al-Ajarma
Epilogue. Narrating Mecca: Between Sense and Presence
âSimon Coleman
Glossary
Index