The Longest Journey

ISBN-13: 9780195308280 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 368 str.

Eric Tagliocozzo

Opis

The pilgrimage to Mecca, or Hajj, has been a yearly phenomenon of great importance in Muslim lands for well over one thousand years. Each year, millions of pilgrims from throughout the Dar al-Islam, or Islamic world, stretching from Morocco east to Indonesia, make the trip to Mecca as one of the five pillars of their faith. By the end of the nineteenth century, and the beginning of the twentieth, fully half of all pilgrims making the journey in any given year could come from Southeast Asia. The Longest Journey, spanning eleven modern nation-states and seven centuries, is the first book to offer a history of the Hajj from one of Islam's largest and most important regions.

Recenzje

This book offers interesting facts and ideas about the political and economic context of the Hajj, as well as interesting snippets on the situation in contemporary Southeast Asia, especially in the countries with Muslim minorities.

O autorze

Eric Tagliacozzo is Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, Cornell University. He is the author of Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915