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A season in Mecca : narrative of a pilgrimage

By: Hammoudi, Abdellah
Title By: Ghazaleh, Pascale [Translated by]
Material type: BookPublisher: New York : Hill and Wang, c2006.Description: 293 p. : maps ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780809076093; 0809076098Subject(s): Hammoudi, Abdellah | Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Saudi Arabia -- Mecca | Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages -- MoroccoDDC classification: 297.352 HA SE
Summary:
In 1999, the Moroccan scholar Abdellah Hammoudi, trained in Paris and teaching in America, decided to go on the pilgrimage to Mecca. He wanted to observe the hajj as an anthropologist but also to experience it as an ordinary pilgrim, and to write about it for both Muslims and non–Muslims. Here is his intimate, intense, and detailed account of the hajj – a rare and important document by a subtle, learned, and sympathetic writer.
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REGULAR University of Wollongong in Dubai
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1. Departures --
2. Governing religion --
3. In training, and ghosts of the self --
4. Praying and shopping --
5. Dead ends --
6. Denying the self to the self, or the road to Mecca --
7. Untitled --
8. The unwelcome archive --
9. Resurrection before death --
10. Memory of finitude --
11. Memory of violence --
12. Epilogues.

In 1999, the Moroccan scholar Abdellah Hammoudi, trained in Paris and teaching in America, decided to go on the pilgrimage to Mecca. He wanted to observe the hajj as an anthropologist but also to experience it as an ordinary pilgrim, and to write about it for both Muslims and non–Muslims. Here is his intimate, intense, and detailed account of the hajj – a rare and important document by a subtle, learned, and sympathetic writer.

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