Bosnian Hajj Literature: Multiple Paths to the Holy

ISBN-13: 9781474494106 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

KARIC DZENITA

Spis treści

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Note on Translieration

Introduction: Writing about the Hajj through the Centuries

Layers of Mediation

The Bosnian Hajj through Centuries

The In-betweenness of the Bosnian Hajj

The Man?zil of the Book

1 The Meanings of the Sacred

Bosnian Scholars in the Ottoman Empire

The Universal Values of the Holy Places

The Eternal Protectors of the Holy Places

Mediating the Worlds through the Black Stone

The City and the Prophet

Loving the Prophet

Living and Dying in Medina

Conclusion

2 The Roads to Mecca

The Habitus of Hajj

Setting Off on the Voyage

On the Journey

Pious Visitations

Places of Highest Importance

Places and Senses

Conclusion

3 Change

Interwar Debates on the Hajj

Transforming the Hajj

Hajj on the Marketplace of News

Hajj as a Modern Curiosity

The Hajj between the Local and the Global

The Significance of the Pilgrimage

Conclusion

4 Dis/Connections

Promoting Yugoslavia: Postwar Hajj Delegations

Mecca in the Postwar Imaginary

No Angels in the Desert: Zuko Džumhur in the Hijaz

Against Empty Form: 'I Do Not Kneel to You, Nor Do I Worship Thee'

Modernist Disconnections: Objections to Sufism

Kissing the Prophet’s Tomb with One’s Heart

Conclusion

5 Bosniaks between Homeland and Holy Land

Bosniaks on the Hajj with Their President

Maimed Bodies on the Hajj

Places Without God's House

Rites and Close Encounters

Traversing the Distance – The Hajj and the Self

Conclusion

Conclusion: The Persistence of Devotion

Writing about the Hajj

The Hajj and the World

Possibilities of Mediation

Bibliography

Manuscripts

Printed Books and Articles

Index