Golden Roads: Migration, Pilgrimage and Travel in Medieval and Modern Islam

Migration (Hijra); Chapter 1 The Structure of Society in Preislamic Arabia and the Impact of the HIJRA:, A.M. Nasr; Chapter 2 Hijra and the Dissemination of Wahh?b? Doctrine in Saudi Arabia, Roger Webster; Pilgrimage.(?Hajj); Chapter 3 The?ajj in the Second Civil War, G.R. Hawting; Chapter 4 Effets Pervers Du ?ajj, D’Aprés Le Cas D’Al-Andalus, Dominique Urvoy; Travel (Ri?la); Chapter 5 Basic Structures and Signs of Alienation in the Ri?la of Ibn Jubayr, I.R. Netton; Chapter 6 International Migrations of Literate Muslims in the Later Middle Period:, Ross E. BA????, Dunn; Chapter 7 The Ri?la:, C.F. Beckingham; Chapter 8 Les ‘Détenus Arabes’ De Calvi, 1871–1903, Fanny Colonna; Chapter 9 The Pilgrim From Pest:, Lawrence I. Conrad; Chapter 10 Naj?b Ma?f?? in Search of the Ideal State:, R. El-Enany; Chapter 11 A Muslim Pilgrim’s Progress:, Fatma Moussa-Mahmoud;

Focuses on three major themes from Islam: migration, pilgrimage and travel. Discussed separately, they are linked by the fact that they examine the cosmopolitan Islamic social order which emerged in a large part of the Afro-Eurasian land mass and that they reflect Muhammad's call to seek knowledge.

Ian Richard Netton (Reader in Arab and Islamic Civilisation and Thought, University of Exeter) (Edited by)