The Longest Journey: Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca

Synopsis

The Pilgrimage To Mecca, Or Hajj, Has Been A Yearly Phenomenon Of Great Importance In Muslim Lands For Well Over One Thousand Years. Each Year, Millions Of Pilgrims From Throughout The Dar Al-islam, Or Islamic World, Stretching From Morocco East To Indonesia, Make The Trip To Mecca As One Of The Five Pillars Of Their Faith. By The End Of The Nineteenth Century, And The Beginning Of The Twentieth, Fully Half Of All Pilgrims Making The Journey In Any Given Year Could Come From Southeast Asia. The Longest Journey, Spanning Eleven Modern Nation-states And Seven Centuries, Is The First Book To Offer A History Of The Hajj From One Of Islam's Largest And Most Important Regions. -- Book Cover. Deep Structure, Longue-duree: Charting The Hajj Over The Centuries. Ancient Pilgrims: Southeast Asia's Earliest Muslim Pilgrims -- Mecca's Tidal Pull: The Red Sea And Its Worlds -- Financing Devotion: The Economics Of The Pre-modern Hajj -- Sultanate And Crescent: Religion And Politics In The Indian Ocean -- Sailor, Doctor, Statesman, Spy: The Hajj Through Four Colonial Windows. In Conrad's Wake: Lord Jim, The Patna, And The Hajj -- A Medical Mountain: Health Maintenance And Disease Control On The Hajj -- The Skeptic's Eye: Snouck Hurgronje And The Politics Of Pilgrimage -- The Jeddah Consulates: Colonial Espionage In The Hejaz -- Making The Hajj Modern: Pilgrims, States, And Memory. Regulating The Flood: The Hajj And The Independent Nation-state -- On The Margins Of Islam: Hajjis From Outside Southeast Asia's Islamic Arc -- I Was The Guest Of Allah: Hajj Memoirs And Writings From Southeast Asia -- Remembering Devotion: Oral History And The Pilgrimage. Eric Tagliacozzo. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.