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Golden Roads: Migration, Pilgrimage, And Travel In Mediaeval And Modern Islam Migration, Pilgrimage, And Travel In Mediaeval And Modern Islam Migration, Pilgrimage, And Travel In Medieval And Modern Islam by Ian Richard Netton; University of Exeter Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Essays on themes (migration, pilgrimage and travel) as old as Islam itself and integral in the development of a cosmopolitan Islamic social order embracing much of Africa and Eurasia. The triple themes of this book - migration, pilgrimage and travel in Islam - are as old as the religion itself. The Prophet Muhammad made his famous archetypal "Hijra" (migration) from Mecca to Medina in 622 AD, a year which became the Year 1 of the Muslim lunar calendar; the "Hajj" (pilgrimage) of Farewell enacted by the Prophet in 632 AD provided the paradigm for all future pilgrimages to the sacred Ka'ba in Mecca; while a much quoted hadith portrays the Founder of Islam counselling his followers that they should seek knowledge even as far as China. The concept of "Rihla" (travel) in search of knowledge thus became a primary motif in the lives of many medieval - and modern - Muslim scholars, jurists, collectors of tradition and, indeed, ordinary people.;The editor is also author of "A Popular Dictionary of Islam."

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Author
Ian Richard Netton; University of Exeter Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Publisher
RoutledgeCurzon Press
Published
1995
Language
EN
ISBN
9781138405950
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Science, Islam, History

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