Neda Saghaee
Neda Saghaee completed her Ph.D. in Islamic Studies at the University of Erfurt. Her Ph.D. dissertation was entitled "Muḥammad Nāṣir ʿAndalīb’s Sufi Path based on his Lament of the Nightingale: Revisiting Mystical Islam in the Eighteenth Century India." She is a researcher in the field of Sufism, Persian literature, and comparative studies of religions, studies of little-known manuscripts. During the last years, she has been interested in employing multidisciplinary methods to understand the influence of a mystical point of view in Islamic discourse.
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Narrating the pilgrimage to Mecca discusses a wide variety of historical and contemporary personal accounts of the pilgrimage to Mecca, most of which presented in English for the first time. The book addresses how being situated in a specific cultural context and moment in history informs the meanings attributed to the pilgrimage experience. The various contributions reflect on how, in their stories, pilgrims draw on multiple cultural discourses and practices that shape their daily lifeworlds to convey the ways in which the pilgrimage to Mecca speaks to their senses and moves them emotionally. Together, the written memoirs and oral accounts discussed in the book offer unique insights in Islam’s rich and evolving tradition of hajj and ʿumra storytelling.
Review and Introduce Aḥmad Jām's Book, the Famous Sufi of the 5th and 6th Century
Narrating the pilgrimage to Mecca discusses a wide variety of historical and contemporary personal accounts of the pilgrimage to Mecca, most of which presented in English for the first time. The book addresses how being situated in a specific cultural context and moment in history informs the meanings attributed to the pilgrimage experience. The various contributions reflect on how, in their stories, pilgrims draw on multiple cultural discourses and practices that shape their daily lifeworlds to convey the ways in which the pilgrimage to Mecca speaks to their senses and moves them emotionally. Together, the written memoirs and oral accounts discussed in the book offer unique insights in Islam’s rich and evolving tradition of hajj and ʿumra storytelling.
Review and Introduce Aḥmad Jām's Book, the Famous Sufi of the 5th and 6th Century