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Explores changing attitudes to the holy through a study of five centuries of Bosnian Hajj literature
Discusses Hajj literature from Bosnia written between the 16th and 21st centuries in Arabic, Ottoman Turkish and Bosnian
Engages with a variety of classical and modern genres including narrative accounts, travelogues, journalistic reportages, diaries, letters and postcards, religious treatises, essays, poems and plays
Stands at the intersection of Islamic studies, religious studies and broader area studies
Recentres the study of Islam on practices and writings, and on the Balkan experiences, which are often seen as 'peripheral' within the Muslim world
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.
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Note on Translieration
Introduction: Writing about the Hajj through the Centuries
Layers of Mediation
The Bosnian Hajj through Centuries
The In-betweenness of the Bosnian Hajj
The Manāzil of the Book
1 The Meanings of the Sacred
Bosnian Scholars in the Ottoman Empire
The Universal Values of the Holy Places
The Eternal Protectors of the Holy Places
Mediating the Worlds through the Black Stone
The City and the Prophet
Loving the Prophet
Living and Dying in Medina
Conclusion
2 The Roads to Mecca
The Habitus of Hajj
Setting Off on the Voyage
On the Journey
Pious Visitations
Places of Highest Importance
Places and Senses
Conclusion
3 Change
Interwar Debates on the Hajj
Transforming the Hajj
Hajj on the Marketplace of News
Hajj as a Modern Curiosity
The Hajj between the Local and the Global
The Significance of the Pilgrimage
Conclusion
4 Dis/Connections
Promoting Yugoslavia: Postwar Hajj Delegations
Mecca in the Postwar Imaginary
No Angels in the Desert: Zuko Džumhur in the Hijaz
Against Empty Form: 'I Do Not Kneel to You, Nor Do I Worship Thee'
Modernist Disconnections: Objections to Sufism
Kissing the Prophet's Tomb with One's Heart
Conclusion
5 Bosniaks between Homeland and Holy Land
Bosniaks on the Hajj with Their President
Maimed Bodies on the Hajj
Places Without God's House
Rites and Close Encounters
Traversing the Distance - The Hajj and the Self
Conclusion
Conclusion: The Persistence of Devotion
Writing about the Hajj
The Hajj and the World
Possibilities of Mediation
Bibliography
Manuscripts
Printed Books and Articles
Index
