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Author: Karić Dženita
Edition: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
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This is the first critical and theoretically grounded book-length study of Hajj literature (written texts about the experience of the Hajj) and Hajj practices of Bosnian Muslims. It redefines the ways pilgrimage can be understood and offers new methods for investigating the meaning and importance of Hajj for generations of premodern and modern believers. It also throws light on Balkan communities previously ignored by modern scholarship in Islamic, religious, and area studies. Breaking with the predominant academic trends of focusing on nationalism and ethnic conflict in the region, it instead puts the spotlight on the richness of texts, and visual and archival material, and focuses on genres that challenge the established literary canons.
From the Back Cover
Explores changing attitudes to the holy through a study of 5 centuries of Bosnian Hajj literature Bosnian Hajj Literature: Multiple Paths to the Holy focuses on conceptualisations, images and descriptions of Hajj and Islamic geography by Bosnian Muslim authors in different writing genres from the 16th to the 21st centuries. It shows how meanings of Hajj differed across time, while its significance for the believers remained unchanged. The analysis of conceptualisations includes looking into meanings that are ascribed to rites, narratives used to explain the ritual, emotional expressions that are connected to the pilgrimage, and social meanings attached to the gathering. On another level, because Hajj entails a journey as well, the book observes changes in the perception of travel – including mechanisms of narrative and descriptive inclusion and exclusion, the image of Others (generally non-Muslims, but occasionally Muslim women), the role of transportation, food and lodging. Finally, the book shows what Bosnia meant for pilgrims in the creation of the sacred Islamic geography. This is the first critical and theoretically grounded book-length study of Hajj literature as a medium. Covering a period of several centuries and encompassing literature written in several languages, it redefines the ways pilgrimage can be understood and offers new methods for investigating the meaning and importance of Hajj for generations of premodern and modern believers. Dženita Karić is a senior researcher at the Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
About the Author
Dženita Karić is a senior researcher at the Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. She has published articles in the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Archiv Orientalni, Prilozi za orijentalnu filologiju, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women, Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History (Brill), and Cultural History (forthcoming). She has also contributed to the edited volumes Muslim Women’s Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond: Reconfiguring Gender, Religion, and Mobility (ed. Marjo Buitelaar, Manja Stephan-Emmrich, Viola Thimm, Routledge 2020) and Muslim Pilgrimage in Europe (ed. Ingvild Flaskerud and Richard J. Natvig, Routledge 2016).
Release Date: 31-12-2022
Package Dimensions: 0x0x788