Dale F. Eickelman - Muslim Travellers: Pilgrimage, Migration, and the Religious Imagination (Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies)

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Muslim Travellers

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Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies

General Editor, Barbara D. Metcalf

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7. Empire and Islam: Punjab and the Making of Pakistan, by David Gilmartin

8. Islam and the Russian Empire: Reform and Revolution in Central Asia, by Hlne Carrre d'Encausse

9. Muslim Travellers: Pilgrimage, Migration, and the Religious Imagination, edited by Dale F. Eickelman and James Piscatori

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Pilgrimage, migration, and the
religious imagination

Edited by
Dale F. Eickelman and
James Piscatori

University of California Press
Berkeley Los Angeles

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Published by the University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California

First published 1990
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

1990 Social Science Research Council, New York

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Muslim travellers: pilgrimage, migration, and the religious
imagination / edited by Dale Eickelman and James
Piscatori.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-520-07019-4
1. Travel Religious aspects Islam. 2. Muslim
pilgrims and pilgrimages. 3. Islamic countries
Emigration and immigration. 4. Emigration and
immigration Religious aspects Islam.
I. Eickelman, Dale F., 1942 . II. Piscatori, James P.
BP190.5.T73M87 1990

Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies, 9

ISBN 0-520-07019-4 cloth
ISBN 0-520-07252-9 paper

Printed in Great Britain
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Julia A. Clancy-Smith is Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and North African History at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. She received a PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1988. She also holds a BSFS and an MA from Georgetown University. She is the author of Saints, mahdis and arms: religion and resistance in nineteenth-century North Africa, in Edmund Burke III and Ira Lapidus (eds) Islam, Politics and Social Movements (University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif., 1988) and In the eye of the beholder: the North African Sufi orders and colonial production of knowledge, 18301900, African Journal , 16, 1988.