Presents the results of recent anthropological and historical studies dealing with pilgrimage, religous travel and migration. It is multi-disciplinary and comparative in approach and scope.

Introduction 1. Social Theory in the Study of Muslim Societies Dale F. Eickelman and James Piscatori Part I: Doctrines of Travel 2. The Obligation to Emigrate: The Doctrine of Hijra in Islamic Law Muhammad Khalid Masud 3. The Search for Knowledge in Medieval Muslim Societies: A Comparative Approach Sam I. Gellens Part II: Travel Accounts 4. The Ambivalence of Rihla : Community Integration and Self-definition in Moroccan Travel Accounts, 1300-1800 Abderrahmane El Moudden 5. The Pilgrimage Remembered: South Asian Accounts of the Hajj Barbara D. Metcalf Part III: Pilgrims and Migrants 6. Patterns of Muslim Pilgrimage from Malaysia, 1885-1985 Mary Byrne McDonnell 7. The Hijra from Russia and the Balkans: The Process of Self-definition in the Late Ottoman State Kemal H. Karpat 8. Shifting Centres andm Emergent Identities: Turkey and Germany in the Lives of Turkish Gastarbeiter Ruth Mandel Part IV: Saints, Scholars and Travel 9. Pedigrees and Paradigms: Scholarly Credentials among the Dyula of the Northern Ivory Coast Robert Launay 10. Between Cairo and the Algerian Kabylia: The Rahmaniyya tariqa , 1715-1800 Julia A. Clancy-Smith 11. Saints and Shrines, Politics and Culture: A Morocco-Israel Comparison Alex Weingrod 12. Ziyaret : Gender, Movement and Exchange in a Turkish Community Nancy Tapper Annotated Bibliography Glossary Index