Central Asian Pilgrims

Author : Alexandre Papas
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311220882X
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Central Asian Pilgrims. written by Alexandre Papas and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Reihe Islamkundliche Untersuchungen wurde 1969 im Klaus Schwarz Verlag begründet und hat sich zu einem der wichtigsten Publikationsorgane der Islamwissenschaft in Deutschland entwickelt. Die über 330 Bände widmen sich der Geschichte, Kultur und den Gesellschaften Nordafrikas, des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens sowie Zentral-, Süd- und Südost-Asiens.

Author : Alexandre Papas
Publisher : ISSN
ISBN 13 : 9783879973996
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Central Asian Pilgrims written by Alexandre Papas and published by ISSN. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Striving Striving to fulfil one of the five pillars of Islam, Central Asian believers covered considerable distances to reach Mecca. This book is the story of their endeavours and their successes. Based on the proceedings of an international conference held in Tashkent, the collection brings together eleven essays on hajj pilgrims and networks, each written by a leading scholar in the field of Islamic and Central Asian studies and drawing upon new material and sophisticated theoretical approaches. The volume covers a long period of history, from the sixteenth century to the present, and a wide territory ranging from Western China to Arabia, passing via Russia, Uzbekistan, India, Iran, and the Red Sea. Contributions are arranged within four sections. In view of the high piety and the religious passion of Central Asian Sufis, and of Naqshbandis in particular, the first section of the book, 'Sufis on Hajj', examines the history and the theory of Sufi pilgrimage between Turkestan and the Haramayn. Besides mystics, "common" pilgrims from various backgrounds undertook and still undertake the long journey: in the second section, 'The Hajj Trajectories', three case studies - relating to Turkestanis in the 16th and 17th centuries, Volga-Ural Muslims in the late 19th century, and Tatars in the early 20th century - illustrate their itineraries, travel conditions, and their activities during the journey. Contributions to the third section, 'Books of Hajj', accord particular attention to events in the 19th century, when a range of new opportunities for Central Asian hajjis allowed the proliferation of new kinds of travelogues inspired by Reformist ideas. Finally, the papers in the fourth section, 'From Hajj to Pious Visits', remind us that, despite this Jadid influence and the development of hajj thanks to modern transportation, secondary pilgrimages - i.e. pious visits to shrines - are still extremely popular, functioning either as a substitute for hajj or as an addition ther.

Author : Lale Can
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503611175
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Subjects written by Lale Can and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of Central Asians made the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. Traveling long distances, many lived for extended periods in Ottoman cities dotting the routes. Though technically foreigners, these Muslim colonial subjects often blurred the lines between pilgrims and migrants. Not quite Ottoman, and not quite foreign, Central Asians became the sultan's spiritual subjects. Their status was continually negotiated by Ottoman statesmen as attempts to exclude foreign Muslim nationals from the body politic were compromised by a changing international legal order and the caliphate's ecumenical claims. Spiritual Subjects examines the paradoxes of nationality reform and pan-Islamic politics in late Ottoman history. Lâle Can unravels how imperial belonging was wrapped up in deeply symbolic instantiations of religion, as well as prosaic acts and experiences that paved the way to integration into Ottoman communities. A complex system of belonging emerged—one where it was possible for a Muslim to be both, by law, a foreigner and a subject of the Ottoman sultan-caliph. This panoramic story informs broader transregional and global developments, with important implications for how we make sense of subjecthood in the last Muslim empire and the legacy of religion in the Turkish Republic.

Author : Lale Can
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781503610170
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Subjects written by Lale Can and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of Central Asians made the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. Traveling long distances, many lived for extended periods in Ottoman cities dotting the routes. Though technically foreigners, these Muslim colonial subjects often blurred the lines between pilgrims and migrants. Not quite Ottoman, and not quite foreign, Central Asians became the sultan's spiritual subjects. Their status was continually negotiated by Ottoman statesmen as attempts to exclude foreign Muslim nationals from the body politic were compromised by a changing international legal order and the caliphate's ecumenical claims. Spiritual Subjects examines the paradoxes of nationality reform and pan-Islamic politics in late Ottoman history. Lâle Can unravels how imperial belonging was wrapped up in deeply symbolic instantiations of religion, as well as prosaic acts and experiences that paved the way to integration into Ottoman communities. A complex system of belonging emerged--one where it was possible for a Muslim to be both, by law, a foreigner and a subject of the Ottoman sultan-caliph. This panoramic story informs broader transregional and global developments, with important implications for how we make sense of subjecthood in the last Muslim empire and the legacy of religion in the Turkish Republic.

Author : Walter R. Ratliff
Publisher : Walter Ratliff
ISBN 13 : 1606081330
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pilgrims on the Silk Road written by Walter R. Ratliff and published by Walter Ratliff. This book was released on 2010 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synopsis: They were seeking religious freedom and the Second Coming of Christ in Central Asia. They found themselves in the care of a Muslim king. During the 1880s, Mennonites from Russia made a treacherous journey to the Silk Road kingdom of Khiva. Both Uzbek and Mennonite history seemed to set the stage for ongoing religious and ethnic discord. Yet their story became an example of friendship and cooperation between Muslims and Christians. Pilgrims on the Silk Road challenges conventional wisdom about the trek to Central Asia and the settlement of Ak Metchet. It shows how the story, long associated with failed End Times prophecies, is being recast in light of new evidence. Pilgrims highlights the role of Ak Metchet as a refuge for those fleeing Soviet oppression, and the continuing influence of the episode more than twelve decades later. Endorsements: "Walter Ratliff's history of the Mennonite Great Trek to Central Asia offers a new angle of vision upon one of the most remarkable events of Mennonite history. Pilgrims on the Silk Road puts the Great Trek into the context of nineteenth-century imperial rivalry and of the Russian conquest of Khiva. The author tells tales of Muslim-Christian cooperation that resonate with meaning in our twenty-first century of religious polarization. Ratliff's perspective is revisionist without being contentious. I hope this book will find a wide readership." -James Juhnke, Bethel College, Emeritus "In Pilgrims on the Silk Road, Ratliff has brought to light a fascinating but little known chapter in the history of European involvement in Central Asia, along the silk road. His portrait of the Mennonite mission to Khiva makes for great reading and an excellent companion to such classic works as Peter Hopkirk's The Great Game." -Charles M. Stang, Harvard Divinity School Author Biography: Walter Ratliff is a journalist and religion scholar from Washington, DC. He holds degrees from Georgetown University, Wheaton College, and the University of New Mexico. He is the producer/director of the documentary "Through the Desert Goes Our Journey" (2008).

Author : Thierry Zarcone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9784904039113
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sufi Pilgrims from Central Asia and India in Jerusalem written by Thierry Zarcone and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher I. Beckwith
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691155313
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warriors of the Cloisters written by Christopher I. Beckwith and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-16 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this provocative book, Christopher I. Beckwith traces how the recursive argument method was first developed by Buddhist scholars and was spread by them throughout ancient Central Asia. He shows how the method was adopted by Islamic Central Asian natural philosphers - most importantly by Avicenna, one of the most brilliant of all medieval thinkers - and transmitted to the West when Avicenna's works were translated into Latin in Spain in the twelfth century by the Jewish philosopher Ibn Dā'ūd and others. -- Book jacket.

Author : Eric Tagliacozzo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019530828X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Longest Journey written by Eric Tagliacozzo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004417737
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buddhism in Central Asia I written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ERC-funded research project BuddhistRoad aims to create a new framework to enable understanding of the complexities in the dynamics of cultural encounter and religious transfer in pre-modern Eastern Central Asia. Buddhism was one major factor in this exchange: for the first time the multi-layered relationships between the trans-regional Buddhist traditions (Chinese, Indian, Tibetan) and those based on local Buddhist cultures (Khotanese, Uyghur, Tangut, Khitan) will be explored in a systematic way. The first volume Buddhism in Central Asia (Part I): Patronage, Legitimation, Sacred Space, and Pilgrimage is based on the start-up conference held on May 23rd–25th, 2018, at CERES, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) and focuses on the first two of altogether six thematic topics to be dealt with in the project, namely on “patronage and legitimation strategy” as well as "sacred space and pilgrimage."

Author : Sally Wriggins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000011097
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Xuanzang written by Sally Wriggins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The saga of the seventh-century Chinese monk Xuanzang, who completed an epic sixteen-year journey to discover the heart of Buddhism at its source in India, is a splendid story of human struggle and triumph. One of China's great heroes, Xuanzang is introduced here for the first time to Western readers in this richly illustrated book.