A Princess's Pilgrimage

A Princess's Pilgrimage

Author: Sikandar Begum (Nawab of Bhopal)

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 264

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Account of a former ruling nawab from Bhopal, princely state in India.


A Pilgrimage to Mecca

A Pilgrimage to Mecca

Author: Nawab Sikander Begum

Publisher:

Published: 2007-10

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781847740014

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Journey for a Princess

Journey for a Princess

Author: Margaret Carver Leighton

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)

Published: 1960

Total Pages: 216

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Princess Elstrid, daughter of King Alfred the Great, plays a courageous role in the Christian effort to drive the Vikings from western Europe in the 9th century.


Zenani Deordhi: The Life and Journey of a Princess

Zenani Deordhi: The Life and Journey of a Princess

Author: Dr. Santosh Singh

Publisher: One Point Six Technologies Pvt Ltd

Published: 2020-12-24

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 9390463068

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‘Who I am today? Merely a suffering soul, tormented by my own guilt. I cannot tread the same lanes, the royal corridors again that I left behind a year ago; so what if I want to rectify today, something that I destroyed yesterday.’ She stood gazing at him helplessly. Fateh Kanwar, the princess of Bikaner, stunningly beautiful and noble was not born to rule. Or so she thought. Married at the age of twelve, the tender love grew in her life after she took saptpadi with the crown prince of Jaipur. They were two young lives converging on a deadly course: one an innocent princess of Bikaner, who was living an idyllic life in royal corridors, the other , a young charming prince, who had spent all his life defying the traditions and Rajdharma, even after ascending the throne. After a series of shocking events, it was her brilliant mother-in-law, who paved the way for her elevation to be a regent queen. But yet again her world turned upside down. She perceived the political intrigues and power play of her two most trusted people as the key to her rule. Destiny defied her again. Fateh Kanwar herself becomes a victim of greed for power. Or so the people believed. Set in the last quarter of the eighteenth and the early nineteenth century India, ‘Zenani Deordhi’ is a compelling tale of a kingdom in peril. It is the tale of love and loss, pleasure and pain, and lust and greed. It is a vivid account of the lifelong struggle of a simple young woman, who walked the tightrope of being a queen and a mother and therefore became a sweeping story that is as relevant today as it was yesterday.


Muslim Women’s Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond

Muslim Women’s Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond

Author: Marjo Buitelaar

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-11-15

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1000287149

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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.


Narrating the Pilgrimage to Mecca

Narrating the Pilgrimage to Mecca

Author: Marjo Buitelaar

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-01-16

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 9004513175

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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. Contributors Kholoud Al-Ajarma, Piotr Bachtin, Vladimir Bobrovnikov, Marjo Buitelaar, Nadia Caidi, Simon Coleman, Thomas Ecker, Zahir Janmohamed, Khadija Kadrouch-Outmany, Ammeke Kateman, Yahya Nurgat, Jihan Safar, Neda Saghaee, Leila Seurat, Richard van Leeuwen and Miguel Ángel Vázquez.


Pilgrimage and Religious Travel: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

Pilgrimage and Religious Travel: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

Author: Yousef Meri

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010-05

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 0199806314

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This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In Islamic studies, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Islamic Studies, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of the Islamic religion and Muslim cultures. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com.


Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women

Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women

Author: Siobhan Lambert-Hurley

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2022-08-02

Total Pages: 533

ISBN-13: 0253062055

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When thinking of intrepid travelers from past centuries, we don't usually put Muslim women at the top of the list. And yet, the stunning firsthand accounts in this collection completely upend preconceived notions of who was exploring the world. Editors Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Daniel Majchrowicz, and Sunil Sharma recover, translate, annotate, and provide historical and cultural context for the 17th- to 20th-century writings of Muslim women travelers in ten different languages. Queens and captives, pilgrims and provocateurs, these women are diverse. Their connection to Islam is wide-ranging as well, from the devout to those who distanced themselves from religion. What unites these adventurers is a concern for other women they encounter, their willingness to record their experiences, and the constant thoughts they cast homeward even as they traveled a world that was not always prepared to welcome them. Perfect for readers interested in gender, Islam, travel writing, and global history, Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women provides invaluable insight into how these daring women experienced the world—in their own voices.


The Holy Cities, the Pilgrimage and the World of Islam

The Holy Cities, the Pilgrimage and the World of Islam

Author: Ghālib ibn ʻAwaḍ Quʻayṭī (al-Sulṭān.)

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 752

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Mecca and Medina, the world's most forbidden cities, have long been a symbol of mystery and fascination to outsiders...In this unique, ground-breaking book, one of the world's leading experts in Arabian history investigates the colourful, often astonishing story of these two great cities. Carefully sifting fact from legend, Sultan Ghalib describes their architecture, religious life, society, and politics, and shows how they have played a pivotal role in the history of Islam. All those with an interest in Islamic civilization, religion, and current affairs, will find this volume an indispensable resource. - T.J. Winter, Professor of Islamic Studies, Cambridge University