Bosnian Hajj Literature: Multiple Paths to the Holy

Dženita Karić

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.

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Multiple Paths to the Holy

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Figures
pp vii-vii

Acknowledgements
pp viii-x

Note on Transliteration
pp xi-xi

Timeline
pp xii-xii

Introduction Writing about the Hajj through the Centuries
pp 1-28

1 - The Meanings of the Sacred
pp 29-60

2 - The Roads to Mecca
pp 61-93

3 - Change
pp 94-134

4 - Dis/Connections
pp 135-173

5 - Bosniaks between Homeland and Holy Land
pp 174-207

Conclusion The Persistence of Devotion
pp 208-215

Bibliography
pp 216-232

Index
pp 233-243

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