Golden Roads: Migration, Pilgrimage and Travel in Medieval and Modern Islam

by Ian Richard Netton

Overview

Essays on themes (migration, pilgrimage and travel) as old as Islam itself and integral in the development of a cosmopolitan Islamic social order embracing much of Africa and Eurasia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135799274
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/29/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	193
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Ian Richard Netton

Table of Contents

Migration (Hijra); Chapter 1 The Structure of Society in Preislamic Arabia and the Impact of the HIJRA:, A.M. Nasr; Chapter 2 Hijra and the Dissemination of Wahh?b? Doctrine in Saudi Arabia, Roger Webster; Pilgrimage.(?Hajj); Chapter 3 The?ajj in the Second Civil War, G.R. Hawting; Chapter 4 Effets Pervers Du ?ajj, D’Aprés Le Cas D’Al-Andalus, Dominique Urvoy; Travel (Ri?la); Chapter 5 Basic Structures and Signs of Alienation in the Ri?la of Ibn Jubayr, I.R. Netton; Chapter 6 International Migrations of Literate Muslims in the Later Middle Period:, Ross E. BA????, Dunn; Chapter 7 The Ri?la:, C.F. Beckingham; Chapter 8 Les ‘Détenus Arabes’ De Calvi, 1871–1903, Fanny Colonna; Chapter 9 The Pilgrim From Pest:, Lawrence I. Conrad; Chapter 10 Naj?b Ma?f?? in Search of the Ideal State:, R. El-Enany; Chapter 11 A Muslim Pilgrim’s Progress:, Fatma Moussa-Mahmoud;