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Pilgrimage in Islam: Traditional and Modern Practices Sophia Rose Arjana London: Oneworld Publications, 2017.
Pilgrimage in Islam is a religious act wherein Muslims leave their homes and spaces and travel to another place, the nature, geography, and disposi tions of which they are unfamiliar.
In Pilgrimage in Islam, Sophia Rose Arjana writes that “intimacy with Allah is achievable in certain spaces, which is an important story of Islamic pilgrimage”.
Arjana writes that in pilgrimage—something which creates spaces and dispositions—Muslim journeys cross sectarian boundaries, incorporate non-Muslim rituals, and involve numerous communities, languages, and traditions (the merging of Shia, Sunni, and Sufi categories) even to “en gende[r] a syncretic tradition”.
This chapter cites numerous sites that offer fluid spaces for the expression of different iden tities, the practice of distinct rituals, and cohabitation of different religious communities through the idea of “shared pilgrimage”.