Bosnian Hajj Literature: Multiple Paths to the Holy Karic Dzenita
Bosnian Hajj Literature: Multiple Paths to the Holy Karic Dzenita This is the first critical and theoretically grounded book-length study of Hajj literature (written texts about the experience of the…
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Bosnian Hajj Literature: Multiple Paths to the Holy Karic Dzenita
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 also throws light on Balkan communities previously ignored by modern scholarship in Islamic, religious, and area studies. 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.
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