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Under what conditions does in-group pride facilitate out-group tolerance? What are the causal linkages between intergroup tolerance and socialization in religious rituals? This book examines how Muslims from Russia's North Caucuses returned from the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca both more devout as Muslims and more tolerant of out-groups. Drawing on prominent theories of identity and social capital, the authors resolve seeming contradictions between the two literatures by showing the effects of religious rituals that highlight within-group diversity at the same time that they affirm the group's common identity. This theory is then applied to explain why social integration of Muslim immigrants has been more successful in the USA than in Europe and how the largest Hispanic association in the US defied the clash of civilizations theory by promoting immigrants' integration into America's social mainstream. The book offers insights into Islam's role in society and politics and the interrelationships between religious faith, immigration and ethnic identity, and tolerance that will be relevant to both scholars and practitioners.

1. Introduction: Islamic globalization -- I. Pilgrimage and religious travel. 2. A pilgrim's eye view of the Hajj -- 3. The contemporary Hajj -- 4. The Hajj and human migration -- 5. Women's participation in the Hajj -- 6. Religious travel in Islam -- II. Capitalism and Islamic finance. 7. Capitalism and Islam -- 8. The battle for the soul of Islamic finance - if it has one -- 9. The revolution in Islamic finance -- 10. Islamic finance and the international system: integration without colonialism -- III. Democracy and Islamic modernism. 11. Egypt's revolutionary elections -- 12. The cocial and economic bases of Ennahdha power: Khaldunian and Tocquevillian reflections on the Tunisian elections -- 13. On liberty and human interest in the work of Iliya Harik -- 14. Leonard Binder's Islamic liberalism: a critique of developmental ideologies -- 15. Philosophers, lawyers, and journalists: Arab and Turkish ventures in modernist Islam -- IV. Diplomacy and great power politics. 16. Morsy in Beijing: implications for America's relations with China and the Islamic world -- 17. China-Middle East relations in light of Obama's pivot to the Pacific -- 18. China and the United States in the Middle East and the Islamic world -- 19. The lands of Islam in a China-led Afro-Eurasia -- 20. Conclusion: toward a new concert of civilizations.

"The hajj calls Muslims to journey to Mecca from wherever they are across the world. Of the far-flung communities one of the largest is that of the Muslims of Southeast Asia, and within that region in times past, one of the principal centres for hajj transit and transport was Singapore. If modern air travel bridges continents within hours, before the 1970s, pilgrim travel from Southeast Asia was by sea, and distance and difficulties were far more strongly felt. Hajj pilgrims then might take a lifetime to save for the journey, so a great many were old and frail, yet no real records remain and very few personal accounts exist of the experience, the tests, or fears along the way, of the time spent under sail or by "steam." This book sets out to describe the development of hajj shipping and the historical place of Singapore in this network. And, through anecdotes and comparisons, images and maps, to paint a picture of what this hajj journey by sea entailed and, in that sense, to offer a kind of "human face" to the journey."--

The Hajj in Early Photo Documents / C.E.S. Gavin -- Ch. I. Origins. The Religion of Abraham. The Primitive Sanctuary. Arabian Paganism. Muhammad and the Hajj -- Ch. II. Mecca and the Ways Thither. Changes in the Haram. The Paths to Mecca. The Ways from Iraq. The Syrian Hajj. The Hajj Route from Egypt. The Interior Arabian Routes -- Ch. III. The Medieval Hajj (1100-1400 C.E.). Ibn Jubayr on the Hajj in 1183-1184. Entering the State of Ihram. The Pilgrimage to Arafat (13 March 1184). The Umra of Rajab. Medina the Radiant -- Ch. IV. Under New Auspices. The Syrian Pilgrimage. The Carriage and Care of Pilgrims. The Bedouin Problem. The Egyptian Pilgrimage. Iranians Make the Hajj. The Caravan as Marketplace in Early Ottoman Times. The Red Sea Crossing. Ali Bey in Mecca (1807). The Wahhabis in Mecca -- Ch. V. Through European Eyes: Holy City and Hajj in the Nineteenth Century. On Making the Hajj under Pretense. Charles Doughty on the Hajj. On First Arriving in Mecca

"Every year hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from all over the world converge on Mecca and its precincts to perform the rituals associated with the Hajj and have been doing so since the seventh century. In this volume, scholars from a range of fields - including history, religion, anthropology, and literature - together tell the story of the Hajj and explain its significance as one of the key events in the Muslim religious calendar. By outlining the parameters of the Hajj from its beginnings to the present day, the contributors have produced a global study that takes in the vast geographies of belief in the world of Islam. This volume pays attention to the diverse aspects of the Hajj, as lived every year by hundreds of millions of Muslims, touching on its rituals, its regional forms, the role of gender, its representation in art, and its organization on a global scale"--