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Author:   Ingvild Flaskerud ,  Richard J. Natvig ,  John Eade ,  Jas' Elsner
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367880408

ISBN 10:   0367880407
Pages:   204
Publication Date:   12 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction; Ingvild Flaskerud and Richard J. Natvig; 1 Moved by Mecca: The meanings of the Hajj for present day Dutch Muslims; Marjo Buitelaar 2 Mediating pilgrimage: Pilgrimage remembered and desired in a Norwegian home-community; Ingvild Flaskerud 3 Online Bosniak hajj narratives; Dženita Karić 4 Pilgrimage to Mecca by British converts to Islam in the inter-war period; John Slight 5 Seeking blessing and earning merit: Muslim travellers in Bosnia-Hercegovina; Tone Bringa and David Henig 6 Pilgrimage as Muslim religious commemoration: The case of Ajvatovica in Bosnia-Hercegovina; Sara Kuehn 7 After the War, before the Future: Remembrance and public representations of atrocities in Sarajevo; Catharina Raudvere 8 Dealing with Boundaries: Muslim pilgrimages and political economy on the southern Albanian frontier; Antonio Maria Pusceddu 9 Pilgrimages in Western European Sufism; Francesco Piraino 10 Pilgrimage to a shrine: The recreation of a Sufi tradition in the UK; M. Amer Morgahi 11 Muslim pilgrims in Brittany: Pilgrimage, dialogue and paradoxes; Manoël Pénicaud

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Muslim Pilgrimage in Europe is therefore very helpful in explaining and providing knowledge about Muslim pilgrimage phenomena in Europe. It also highlights multiple important issues on Muslims' living in the West, especially on issues of identity, religious revivalism, and interreligious dialogue. Anwar Masduki, doctoral student in Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Groningen.

Muslim Pilgrimage in Europe is therefore very helpful in explaining and providing knowledge about Muslim pilgrimage phenomena in Europe. It also highlights multiple important issues on Muslims' living in the West, especially on issues of identity, religious revivalism, and interreligious dialogue. Anwar Masduki, doctoral student in Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Groningen.

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"Ingvild Flaskerud is a Post Doc Fellow at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her main research interests include Twelver Shia rituals, their material and visual culture, the negotiation of religious authority, and Shia migration and regrounding in the West. Flaskerud has published the monograph Visualizing Belief and Piety in Iranian Shiism (2010), and is the co-author, with Inger Marie Okkenhaug, of Gender, Religion and Change in the Middle East: Two Hundred Years of History (2005), as well as the producer of the ethnographic film ‘Standard-bearers of Hussein. Women commemorating Karbala’ (2003). Richard Johan Natvig is Associate Professor of History of Religions at the University of Bergen, Norway. His main research interests are everyday religion in Egypt, especially the zar spirit possession beliefs and rituals, saint cults, and religious iconography among Muslims. He has published several articles and book-chapters on these and other issues, and is co-editor of Islamer i Norge (""Islams in Norway"", 2005), and of Metode i religionsvitenskap (""Method in religious studies"", 2006)."

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