{"product_id":"muslim-travellers-pilgrimage-migration-and-the-religious-imagination-paperback","title":"Muslim Travellers: Pilgrimage, Migration, and the Religious Imagination - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDale F. Eickelman\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJames Piscatori\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on travel in Muslim societies from Malaysia to West Africa to Western Europe from the first centuries of Islam to the present, the contributors to this edition investigate the role of religious doctrine in motivating travel. While pilgrimage is usually seen as travel with a uniquely religious purpose, this exploration of the role of travel in Muslim societies and in Islamic doctrine shows that other forms of travel--for learning, visits to shrines, exile, and labor migration--also shape the religious imagination. Conversely, travel for specifically religious purposes often has important economic and political consequences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe contributors explore the transnational and local significance of pilgrimage and migration, showing how these journeys heighten a universal sense of \"being Muslim\" while also inspiring the redefinition of the frontiers of sect, language, territory, and nation. In this way, encounters with Muslim \"others\" have been as important in shaping community self-definition as encounters with European \"others.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLinking pilgrimage and migration to issues such as class, ethnicity, and gender, \u003ci\u003eMuslim Travellers\u003c\/i\u003e will be of special value to students of history and anthropology and to those in cross-disciplinary courses such as Islamic civilization and world religions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDale F. Eickelman\u003c\/b\u003e is Ralph and Richard Lazarus Professor of Anthropology and Human Relations at Dartmouth College. \u003cb\u003eJames Piscatori\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at University College of Wales in Aberystwyth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 310\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.98 x 8.53 x 5.46 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 08, 1990\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51749404410144,"sku":"9780520072527","price":61.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9520100781ea7ac68d632b50faeadb51.webp?v=1779931897","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/muslim-travellers-pilgrimage-migration-and-the-religious-imagination-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}