Guests of God pilgrimage and politics in the Islamic world

While the hajj is first and foremost a religious festival, it is also very much a political event. Every large Muslim state has developed a comprehensive hajj policy and a powerful bureaucracy to enforce it. This work argues, no secular or religious authority - national or international - can really...

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Main Author: Bianchi, Robert
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2004, 2004
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