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...Omer Shah Abstract In the holy city of Mecca, crowds and numbers matter. A hadith, or saying of the Prophet, reports that when pilgrims number fewer than seven hundred thousand, angels will perform the rituals in their stead. One of the names of Mecca is umm al-zuhm or “Mother of Crowds.” Thinking...

... on revitalized memories of the colonial past. We close the issue with Omer Shah's article on the logistics of the Islamic Hajj, the annual convergence of millions of pilgrims from across the globe in the holy city of Mecca. The essay, titled “Optimizing Mecca: Expertise, Infrastructure, and Logistics...

... . “Mimicry and Legendary Psychasthenia.” (trans.) John Shepley. In Annette Michelson et al.(eds.) October: The First Decade . Cambridge: MlT, 1988 : 58 -75. Desani , G. V. All About H. Hatterr , New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1948 rev. ed. 1970 . Desani , Farmkh . Come to Mecca...

... for people who live in Ouagadougou) at FESPACO. The strongest scenes for them were Malcolm’s visit to Mecca, his speeches, and Mandela stating that he is Malcolm X. Most of the complaints about the film came from Europeans and some Americans...

... there was no paved road connecting Jeddah and Riyadh, the two largest cities in the kingdom) meant that air freight played a significant role in intra-Saudi trade and transport (Davies 1995 : 24). Legitimacy also rested on the state's ability to bring pilgrims to Mecca, a process in which the country's aviation...

... Muslims are from North Africa and Muslim regions of Black Africa, either migrant workers or holders of French passports. Some are from Turkey. Only a few are converts of purely French descent. The bulk of the faithful who bow towards Mecca at the Grand Mosque de Paris in the Rue Jean-Piene...

... wealth is growing ever more disproportionate as austerity . . . hits the poor. A watch for $17,000; a house for $2 million; private jets to London or the Friday prayer at Mecca” (Last 1991: 4). The reconfigurations of urban...

... things out because—well, because it can afford to. Johannesburg is the African mecca of The Deal. And that started when the legend of gold—the legend that would make El Dorado sound like a hick town in comparison—stuck fast in the imaginations of the early mining magnates, from Europe, from...

... thousands to their deaths. But while Operation Silence certainly follows the precedent of Operation Bluestar, it also suffers in the comparison. Similarly, the Red Mosque episode suffers in comparison with the storming of Mecca’s Great Mosque...

... Mecca. Within this turned-away-ness, Rushdie plants the migrant's other desire, the search for roots as far down as they'll go. The name of this radical rootedness is, most often, religion. Thus in the section called Mahound, Rushdie re- opens the institution of Revelation, the origin...

... reassured us he did not need money. He said it was his desire to walk to Mecca to undertake his hajj pilgrimage. Assuming we were part of Bollywood, he asked if we could help popularize his endeavor so that he would obtain necessary permissions to walk across five countries. We were surprised and thought...

... life today (baptism, communion, marriage, the return from a pilgrimage to Mecca), a host will still invite Lawbé griots to perform the dances and songs whose bold lyrics narrate the erotic discovery of the body. Should...

... interview with Siegel, see Barker and Rafael 2012 . 1 Snouck Hurgronje (1857 – 1936) was an influential Dutch scholar most famous for his studies of Aceh and Mecca. Because of his knowledge of Acehnese society and history, he became a key advisor to the colonial regime of the Netherlands East Indies...

... and think all kinds of things” (8). Clouds moving across the sky is a leitmotif for change in The Autobiography. Years later, during his trip to Mecca, Malcolm pictures his new predicament, after the break with Elijah Muhammad, with the sky...

... Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Kara Taushif . 2022 . “ Provincializing Mecca? (1924–1969) .” Global Intellectual History 7 , no. 6 : 1037 – 57 . Kara Taushif . Forthcoming. “ Modernism and the Minority...

...-create human ecological origins through architectural design. For him, “California was not merely another lucrative mecca for new settlement and development”; it was “an ancient anthropological memory.”21 The setting offered a “propitious...

... found themselves stranded in Mecca and Medina. 6. Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, “Protector General of Emigrants,” http://mea.gov.in/protector-general-emigrants.htm (accessed May 21, 2020). 7. Minute by Sir Henry Maine, March 22, 1864, quoted in Ramusack 2004 : 94...

... who has been on the pilgrimage to Mecca. But her turbans are made 5. Significantly, the critique of this class of nouveau riche entrepreneurs and the linking of the deterioration of family ties with the business opportunities of the “opening up...

... Valley shape-shifts from a mecca of entrepreneurship and innovation to the industrial underbelly of cyberculture. Liu suggests that such efforts to map or otherwise make visible this underbelly are integral to apprehending the “politics of information.” As he observes, “IT only looks green . . . when...

... . 9 There was a strong impulse in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to model academic hospitals on German and Parisian plans. Many physicians considered Germany the “mecca” of medicine in that period (see Stevens 1999: 374n1). Universities designed buildings to link laboratories to clinics...