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Estudios de Asia y África
On-line version ISSN 2448-654XPrint version ISSN 0185-0164
Abstract
CARRO MARTIN, Sergio. Observations on the Islamic Pilgrimage by Proxy in the Works of Chardin, Niebuhr, and Burckhardt (1600-1900 AD). Estud. Asia Áfr. [online]. 2021, vol.56, n.2, pp.207-234. Epub June 11, 2021. ISSN 2448-654X. https://doi.org/10.24201/eaa.v56i2.2572.
Records exist of Islamic pilgrimages by proxy since the beginning of the eleventh century thanks to the advent of a new typology of documents: pilgrimage certificates. However, and despite documentation in the main Sunnī and Shi‘ī legal works, there are still gaps in the sources that could help explain the bureaucracy that developed around this form of pilgrimage, especially between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Conversely, three European travelers-Jean Chardin, Carsten Niebuhr, and Johann Ludwig Burckhardt-provide valuable information about pilgrimages by proxy overlooked by previous studies on Islamic pilgrimages. This article explores this form of pilgrimage and the issuance of certificates by analyzing different extracts from the works of these three travelers.
Keywords : bureaucracy; certificates; European travelers; Islam; pilgrimage.