By Robert Bianchi

ISBN-10: 0195171071

ISBN-13: 9780195171075

ISBN-10: 0195342119

ISBN-13: 9780195342116

every year, approximately million pilgrims from over a hundred international locations converge at the Islamic holy urban of Mecca for the hajj. whereas the hajj is at the beginning a spiritual competition, it's also greatly a political occasion. No govt can face up to the temptation to govern the hajj for political and financial achieve. each huge Muslim kingdom has built a complete hajj coverage and a strong forms to implement it. The Muslim world's prime multinational association, the association of the Islamic convention, has tested the 1st overseas regime explicitly dedicated to pilgrimage. but, Robert Bianchi argues, no secular or non secular authority - nationwide or foreign - can particularly keep watch over the hajj. State-sponsored pilgrimage administration continually backfires, giving executive rivals necessary ammunition and letting them control the symbols and controversies of the hajj to their very own ends. Bianchi has been studying the hajj for over ten years and attracts on interviews with and information from hajj administrators in 5 Muslim nations (Pakistan, Malaysia, Turkey, Indonesia, and Nigeria), information from Saudi Arabian hajj gurus, in addition to his own event as a pilgrim. the result's the main entire photo of the hajj to be had wherever, and a wide-ranging paintings on Islam, politics, and power.

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