جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "indian muslims" در نشریات گروه "ادیان و عرفان"

Travelogues contain reports about the cultural, social, political, and economic information of their ages and are therefore attractive to people. From a long time ago, authors have been interested in writing travelogues and the importance of the two cities of Mecca and Medina among Muslims has caused writing travelogues of the Hajj and the Holy Shrine to be one of the most important types of travelogues being written by Muslims. Muslims journeys from all over the world to these two religious cities have led to the popularity of writing this type of travelogue. Muslims of India, regardless of the distance and the necessity of crossing the sea, tried the pilgrimage of Mecca and Medina, and some of them described their journeys. In this article, about two hundred travelogues of Indian Muslims to the Holy Shrines are introduced.

In this article, a summary of the book written by Michael Pearson is presented that addresses the social, political, and cultural dimensions of performing the Hajj by Indians during the 10th-13th centuries A.H. Here, the analyses and statistics presented in the book are discussed. Introducing the references and researches related to the topic of the research, as well as the purposes, significance, and limitations of the research based on the order of the chapters, the present article first discusses the date of Hajj at the beginning of a new era, i.e., the period which is under the discussion, then it focuses on the Hajj’s focal position in Muslims’ social and spiritual thoughts; and finally, it analyzes the relationship between the Mughal king of India and the Hajj and Holy Shrines in that period. Explaining the western perspectives on performing the Hajj in general and performing the Hajj by Indians in particular, introducing the influential components in performing the Hajj by Indians in the concerned fiṭrah and analyzing it in a historical way, and presenting new information about performing the Hajj by Indians are the innovations of this research.