Gifting Mecca: Importing Spiritual Capital to West Africa

Kenny, Erin

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“…The social, economic and historic relationships originally forged hundreds of years ago are still closely intertwined in the social imagination of Guineans today, as they continue to value and prize items that come from Mecca, which act as contagious items, carrying symbolic capital from the religious holy city as markers of piety and religious authenticity (Kenny 2007;Vukonic 2002).…”

Section: Network Of Piety Network Of Tradementioning

confidence: 99%

Muslim Women’s Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond

Buitelaar¹,

Stephan-Emmrich²,

Thimm³

2020

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This book investigates female Muslims pilgrimage practices and how these relate to women's mobility, social relations, identities, and the power structures that shape women's lives. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and regional expertise, it offers in-depth investigation of the gendered dimensions of Muslim pilgrimage and the life-worlds of female pilgrims. With a variety of case studies, the contributors explore the experiences of female pilgrims to Mecca and other pilgrimage sites, and how these are embedded in historical and current contexts of globalisation and transnational mobility. This volume will be relevant to a broad audience of researchers across pilgrimage, gender, religious, and Islamic studies.

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Section: Network Of Piety Network Of Tradementioning

confidence: 99%

Muslim Women’s Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond

Buitelaar¹,

Stephan-Emmrich²,

Thimm³

2020

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“…Traders of Afghan background are major exporters of clothing and machine-made carpets from China to Saudi Arabia. The sale of these commodities in Saudi Arabia is connected to the annual hajj pilgrimage, during which Muslim pilgrims from across the world purchase these items as gifts to take home to their relatives and friends (Kenny 2007). Given the importance of Northern Afghanistan for the worldwide trade in carpets (Spooner 1986), traders have a long history of being involved in the supply of prayer mats and carpets more generally both to hajj pilgrims and to the markets of the Gulf.…”

Section: Afghan Traders In Yiwumentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond Bukhara: Trade, identity and interregional exchange across Asia

Марсден¹

2018

History and Anthropology

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This article explores the nature of inter-Asian trade dynamics through a consideration of the role played by traders from northern Afghanistan's Central Asian borderlands in the Chinese international trade city of Yiwu. It explores the role that traders from this region have played in commercial exchanges involving China, the Arabian Peninsula and a range of settings in West Asia. In addition to documenting the inter-Asian scope of these traders' activities, the article also addresses the shifting nature of their identity formations in relationship to successive waves of migration. The traders often identify themselves in relationship to ethnonational identity categories (Turkmen, Uzbek and Tajik) that are politically salient in Central Asia and Afghanistan today. At the same time, the traders also emphasise their being from families that migrated from the territories of the Emirate of Bukhara during the early years of communist rule in the 1920s and 1930s.

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“…After this rite, the ‘inner journey should continue beyond the end point destination…and even the return home’ (Maddrell , p. 16). The pilgrim returns to quotidian life renewed, or even as a new or (spiritually) re‐born person, bringing with them souvenirs, experiences and a new outlook on life (Kenny ; Osterrieth ).…”

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“…In a similar vein, Coleman and Eade () present the movements and rituals of pilgrimage as helping construct sacred places. In material terms, it has also be found that objects, such as souvenirs and postcards, are held as being imbued with a share of the spirituality of the pilgrimage centre (Della Dora ; Kenny ). By appreciating that places are formed, maintained and transformed by flows and embodied movements, the role of pilgrimage in sanctifying or marking out an area as special can be realised.…”

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Geographies of Pilgrimage: Meaningful Movements and Embodied Mobilities

Scriven

2014

Geography Compass

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This article argues for the importance of geographic engagements with pilgrimage and its analysis through the lenses, considerations and sympathies of the mobilities turn. Pilgrimage is being increasingly recognised as a multifaceted sociocultural spatial practice that plays a significant role in the lives of millions of people and in numerous sites across the world. The geographies of mobilities' emphasis on movement and practices in shaping the world enable the formation of new understandings of pilgrimage. This article builds on the links being forged between the study of pilgrimage and the mobility f ield, by showing how pilgrimage, as an activity that is focused on performances in specific places, can be analysed as an embodied mobility. Pilgrimage is explored as a meaningful journey in which the performance entwines the outer physical and inner spiritual/emotion journey in a process that defines and shapes the people and places involved.

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Gifting Mecca: Importing Spiritual Capital to West Africa

Cited by 18 publications

References 30 publications

Muslim Women’s Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond

Muslim Women’s Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond

Beyond Bukhara: Trade, identity and interregional exchange across Asia

Geographies of Pilgrimage: Meaningful Movements and Embodied Mobilities

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