Muslim Women's Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond

Know about the book -

Muslim Women's Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond is written by Marjo Buitelaar and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1003110908 (ISBN 10) and 9781003110903 (ISBN 13).

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.