Document Type
Article
Author ORCID Identifier
Danielle Ross https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1739-9711
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Religions
Volume
12
Issue
8
Publisher
MDPI AG
Publication Date
7-30-2021
First Page
1
Last Page
20
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Abstract
This article examines how Volga-Ural Muslims narrated their encounters with the sacred spaces visited during the hajj. It examines nine accounts hajj composed from the 1690s to the 1940s, to consider how changes in international politics, Russia’s domestic politics, and the culture of Islamic learning within the Volga-Ural Muslim community led to writers to revise narratives of why the sacred spaces of Mecca were sacred, how best to experience the power of these sacred spaces, and how these sacred spaces fit into the local culture of Volga-Ural Islam under Russian and Soviet rule.
Recommended Citation
Ross, D. Retelling Mecca: Shifting Narratives of Sacred Spaces in Volga-Ural Muslim Hajj Accounts, 1699–1945. Religions 2021, 12, 588. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12080588
