Narrating the Pilgrimage to Mecca

Marjo Buitelaar is professor of Contemporary Islam at the University of Groningen. Her most recent co-edited books are Muslim Women’s Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond (Routledge, 2021, with Manja Stephan-Emmrich and Viola Thimm) and Religion as Relation: Studying Religion in Context (Equinox Publishing, 2021, with Peter Berger and Kim Knibbe).Richard van Leeuwen recently retired as lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on Middle Eastern history and Arabic literature. Most recently he published The Thousand and One Nights in 20th Century Fiction (Brill, 2018).ContributorsKholoud Al-Ajarma, Piotr Bachtin, Vladimir Bobrovnikov, Marjo Buitelaar, Nadia Caidi, Simon Coleman, Thomas Ecker, Zahir Janmohamed, Khadija Kadrouch-Outmany, Ammeke Kateman, Yahya Nurgat, Jihan Safar, Neda Saghaee, Leila Seurat, Richard van Leeuwen and Miguel Ángel Vázquez.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsNotes on Transcriptions of Arabic and Other TermsIntroduction. Narrativizing a Sensational Journey: Pilgrimage to MeccaMarjo BuitelaarPart 1 Historical Accounts1 Hajj Narratives as a Discursive TraditionRichard van Leeuwen2 ‘Coplas del peregrino de Puey Monçón’: A Sixteenth-Century Spanish Poem about the HajjMiguel Ángel Vázquez3 Sufism and the Hajj: Symbolic Meanings and Transregional Networks; Two Examples from the 16th and 18th CenturiesNeda Saghaee and Richard van Leeuwen4 Religious Emotion and Embodied Piety in the Ottoman Turkish Hajj Accounts of Evliyā Çelebī (1611–c. 1683) and Yūsuf Nābī (1642–1712)Yahya Nurgat5 Comparing Two Persian Hajj Travelogues: Yaʿqub Mirzā (1868) and Farhād Mirzā (1875/76)Thomas Ecker6 Othering and Being Othered: Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Hajj Accounts by Iranian Shiʿi Women (1880–1901)Piotr Bachtin7 Experiencing the Hajj in an Age of Change: Tuning the Emotions in Several Hajj Accounts of Pilgrims Travelling from Morocco and Egypt in the First Half of the Twentieth CenturyAmmeke Kateman8 Inconveniences of the Hajj: The Arduous Journey of a Moroccan Shaykh in 1929Richard van Leeuwen9 From Moscow to Mecca: Entangled Soviet Narratives of Pilgrimage in the Unlikely 1965 ḥajjnāme of Fazliddin MuhammadievVladimir BobrovnikovPart 2 Contemporary Accounts10 Coming of Age in Mecca: Pilgrimage in the Life Stories of Two Young Adult Dutch PilgrimsMarjo Buitelaar11 ‘Beyond Words’: Moroccan Pilgrims’ Narrations about Their Ineffable Hajj Experiences through Stories about the SensesKholoud Al-Ajarma12 Newlyweds and Other Young French Muslims Traveling to Mecca: Desires, Motivations and Senses of BelongingJihan Safar and Leila Seurat13 Patience and Pilgrimage: Dutch Hajj Pilgrims’ Emergent and Maturing Stories about the Virtue of ṣabrMarjo Buitelaar and Khadija Kadrouch-Outmany14 Crowded Outlets: A North American Khoja Shiʿi Ithna Asheri Pilgrim’s Auto-ethnographic MemoirZahir Janmohamed15 Curating Post-hajj Experiences of North American Pilgrims: Information Practices as Community-Building RitualsNadia Caidi16 Mediating Mecca: Moroccan and Moroccan-Dutch Pilgrims’ Use of the SmartphoneMarjo Buitelaar and Kholoud Al-AjarmaEpilogue. Narrating Mecca: Between Sense and PresenceSimon ColemanGlossaryIndex