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    Journey to the holy land : a pilgrim's diary / Amir Ahmad Alawi ; translated and with an introduction by Mushirul Hasan, Rakhshanda Jalil.

    By: ʻAlvī, Amīr AḥmadContributor(s): Hasan, Mushirul | Jalil, RakhshandaMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English, Persian, Urdu Original language: Urdu Publisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2009Description: 271 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780198063469; 0198063466Other title: Holy landUniform titles: Safar-i saʼādat yaʼnī roznāmcah-yi safar-i Ḥajj, 1347 H.. English Subject(s): ʻAlvī, Amīr Aḥmad -- Travel -- Saudi Arabia -- Mecca | Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Saudi Arabia -- Mecca | Mecca (Saudi Arabia) -- Description and travelDDC classification: 297.352 LOC classification: BP187.3 | .A47713 2009Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description | Table of contents only
    Contents:
    Origins, Journeys and Return: Hajj in Colonial India Mushiru / Hasan and Rakhshanda Jalil -- 'My Experience of the Hajj of 1916' / by J.S. Kadri -- Table showing details of pilgrim ships during the outward season of 1929 -- Table showing details of pilgrim ships during the return season of 1929 -- SAFAR-I-SA'ADAT: Propitious Journey.
    Summary: One of the five pillars of Islam, Hajj (literally 'effort') is the largest annual pilgrimage in the world stretching back to the time of the Prophet (seventh century AD) and even earlier. Before the age of organized travel, the journey spread across sea, deserts and mountains was perilous to say the least. Nonetheless, the hajjis (pilgrims) trivialized the danger's in the knowledge that they would soon enter the House of God. Translated and introduced for the first time, Amir Ahmad Alawi's Safar-I Sa'adat (Propitious Journey), written in 1929, is a firsthand account of this quintessentially Muslim journey. Presented in the form of a roznamcha or daily diary, the works is much more than a personal narrative of lamentation and triumph. Alawi watched, listened and recorded with an air of confident authority. His catholic vision captures the comingling of cultures and peoples, and he candidly comments on the social, economic and political conditions of the places he passed through.
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    Translated from Urdu.

    Includes glossary.

    Includes a list of references in Urdu.

    Origins, Journeys and Return: Hajj in Colonial India Mushiru / Hasan and Rakhshanda Jalil -- 'My Experience of the Hajj of 1916' / by J.S. Kadri -- Table showing details of pilgrim ships during the outward season of 1929 -- Table showing details of pilgrim ships during the return season of 1929 -- SAFAR-I-SA'ADAT: Propitious Journey.

    One of the five pillars of Islam, Hajj (literally 'effort') is the largest annual pilgrimage in the world stretching back to the time of the Prophet (seventh century AD) and even earlier. Before the age of organized travel, the journey spread across sea, deserts and mountains was perilous to say the least. Nonetheless, the hajjis (pilgrims) trivialized the danger's in the knowledge that they would soon enter the House of God. Translated and introduced for the first time, Amir Ahmad Alawi's Safar-I Sa'adat (Propitious Journey), written in 1929, is a firsthand account of this quintessentially Muslim journey. Presented in the form of a roznamcha or daily diary, the works is much more than a personal narrative of lamentation and triumph. Alawi watched, listened and recorded with an air of confident authority. His catholic vision captures the comingling of cultures and peoples, and he candidly comments on the social, economic and political conditions of the places he passed through.

    English; includes passages in Persian and Urdu.

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