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Author Hammoudi, Abdellah.

Title A season in Mecca : narrative of a pilgrimage / Abdellah Hammoudi ; translated from the French by Pascale Ghazaleh.

Imprint New York : Hill and Wang, 2006.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  297.352 H227S    Check Shelf
Description 293 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Contents 1 Departures 3 -- 2 Governing Religion 19 -- 3 In Training, and Ghosts of the Self 39 -- 4 Praying and Shopping 67 -- 5 Dead Ends 94 -- 6 Denying the Self to the Self, or the Road to Mecca 119 -- 7 Untitled 142 -- 8 The Unwelcome Archive 167 -- 9 Resurrection Before Death 190 -- 10 Memory of Finitude 221 -- 11 Memory of Violence 240.
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. Hammoudi describes not just the adventure, the human pressures, and the social tumult--everything from the early preparations to the last climactic scenes in the holy shrines of Medina and Mecca--but also the intricate politics and amazing complexity of the entire pilgrimage experience. He pays special heed to the effects of Saudi bureaucratic control over the Hajj, to the ways that faith itself becomes a lucrative source of commerce for the Arabian kingdom, and to the Wahhabi inflections of the basic Muslim message. Here, too, is a poignant discussion of the inner voyage that pilgrimage can mean to those who embark on it: the transformed sense of daily life, of worship, and of political engagement. Hammoudi acknowledges that he was spurred to reconsider his own ideas about faith, gesture, community, and nationality in unanticipated ways. This is a remarkable work of literature about both the outer forms and the inner meanings of Islam today.
Subject Hammoudi, Abdellah.
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Saudi Arabia -- Mecca.
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Morocco.
11.80 Islam: general. (NL-LeOCL)077594533
73.06 ethnography. (NL-LeOCL)077610415
Hammoudi, Abdellah. (OCoLC)fst01494202
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages. (OCoLC)fst01030970
Morocco. (OCoLC)fst01205592
Saudi Arabia -- Mecca. (OCoLC)fst01204780
Ethnologie (DE-588)4078931-7
Haddsch (DE-588)4125388-7
Hadj.
Ḥammūdī, ʿAbd Allāh. (NL-LeOCL)070067481
Genre/Form Nonfiction.
Added Author Ghazaleh, Pascale.
Added Title Saison à La Mecque. English
ISBN 0809076098
9780809076093
0745637892
9780745637891
Standard No. 9780809076093
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