Sacrifice and Pilgrimage
Sacrifice and Pilgrimage
Body Politics and the Origins of Muslim Pilgrimage
The author tries to find the origins of pilgrimage to Mecca in the pre-Islam era. Focusing on the pre-Islamic practices that linked pilgrimage, sacrifice, and visitation of the dead in the Arabian Peninsula, he refers to the graves of Mecca and explains the early Muslim pilgrimage. By referring to the ideas of cosmogony and eschatology, he shows how the mythological and ritual character of the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca makes it so central and significant to Muslim identity and history.
Keywords: Muslim pilgrimage, Hajj, Ziyara, Graves of Mecca, pre-Islam, ritual, cosmogony, eschatology
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