Muslim Pilgrimage in Europe

Ingvild Flaskerud, Richard J. Natvig, John Eade , Jas' Elsner

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Routledge
12 December 2019

Islamic worship, rites & ceremonies; Islamic studies; Sociology: customs & traditions

Series: Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel and Tourism

In spite of Islam’s long history in Europe and the growing number of Muslims resident in Europe, little research exists on Muslim pilgrimage in Europe. This collection of eleven chapters is the first systematic attempt to fill this lacuna in an emerging research field.

Placing the pilgrims’ practices and experiences centre stage, scholars from history, anthropology, religious studies, sociology, and art history examine historical and contemporary hajj and non-hajj pilgrimage to sites outside and within Europe. Sources include online travelogues, ethnographic data, biographic information, and material and performative culture. The interlocutors are European-born Muslims, converts to Islam, and Muslim migrants to Europe, in addition to people who identify themselves with other faiths. Most interlocutors reside in Albania, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Great Britain, and Norway.

This book identifies four courses of developments: Muslims resident in Europe continue to travel to Mecca and Medina, and to visit shrine sites located elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa. Secondly, there is a revival of pilgrimage to old pilgrimage sites in South-eastern Europe. Thirdly, new Muslim pilgrimage sites and practices are being established in Western Europe. Fourthly, Muslims visit long-established Christian pilgrimage sites in Europe. These practices point to processes of continuity, revitalization, and innovation in the practice of Muslim pilgrimage in Europe. Linked to changing sectarian, political, and economic circumstances, pilgrimage sites are dynamic places of intra-religious as well as inter-religious conflict and collaboration, while pilgrimage experiences in multiple ways also transform the individual and affect the home-community.

Edited by: Ingvild Flaskerud, Richard J. Natvig
Series edited by: John Eade, Jas' Elsner, Ian Reader
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367880408
ISBN 10: 0367880407
Series: Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel and Tourism
Pages: 204
Publication Date: 12 December 2019
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Professional and scholarly , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; Ingvild Flaskerud and Richard J. Natvig; 1 Moved by Mecca: The meanings of the Hajj for present day Dutch Muslims; Marjo Buitelaar 2 Mediating pilgrimage: Pilgrimage remembered and desired in a Norwegian home-community; Ingvild Flaskerud 3 Online Bosniak hajj narratives; Dženita Karić 4 Pilgrimage to Mecca by British converts to Islam in the inter-war period; John Slight 5 Seeking blessing and earning merit: Muslim travellers in Bosnia-Hercegovina; Tone Bringa and David Henig 6 Pilgrimage as Muslim religious commemoration: The case of Ajvatovica in Bosnia-Hercegovina; Sara Kuehn 7 After the War, before the Future: Remembrance and public representations of atrocities in Sarajevo; Catharina Raudvere 8 Dealing with Boundaries: Muslim pilgrimages and political economy on the southern Albanian frontier; Antonio Maria Pusceddu 9 Pilgrimages in Western European Sufism; Francesco Piraino 10 Pilgrimage to a shrine: The recreation of a Sufi tradition in the UK; M. Amer Morgahi 11 Muslim pilgrims in Brittany: Pilgrimage, dialogue and paradoxes; Manoël Pénicaud

"Ingvild Flaskerud is a Post Doc Fellow at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her main research interests include Twelver Shia rituals, their material and visual culture, the negotiation of religious authority, and Shia migration and regrounding in the West. Flaskerud has published the monograph Visualizing Belief and Piety in Iranian Shiism (2010), and is the co-author, with Inger Marie Okkenhaug, of Gender, Religion and Change in the Middle East: Two Hundred Years of History (2005), as well as the producer of the ethnographic film ‘Standard-bearers of Hussein. Women commemorating Karbala’ (2003). Richard Johan Natvig is Associate Professor of History of Religions at the University of Bergen, Norway. His main research interests are everyday religion in Egypt, especially the zar spirit possession beliefs and rituals, saint cults, and religious iconography among Muslims. He has published several articles and book-chapters on these and other issues, and is co-editor of Islamer i Norge (""Islams in Norway"", 2005), and of Metode i religionsvitenskap (""Method in religious studies"", 2006)."

Reviews for Muslim Pilgrimage in Europe

Muslim Pilgrimage in Europe is therefore very helpful in explaining and providing knowledge about Muslim pilgrimage phenomena in Europe. It also highlights multiple important issues on Muslims' living in the West, especially on issues of identity, religious revivalism, and interreligious dialogue. Anwar Masduki, doctoral student in Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Groningen.