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Cover illustration: Young couple taking in the view of the Kaʿba (photograph published with consent of anonymized research participant project Buitelaar).
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Names: Buitelaar, Marjo, editor. | Leeuwen, Richard van, editor.
Title: Narrating the pilgrimage to Mecca : historical and contemporary accounts / edited by Marjo Buitelaar, Richard van Leeuwen.
Description: Boston : Brill, 2023. | Series: Leiden studies in Islam and society, 2210-8920 ; 16 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022052556 (print) | LCCN 2022052557 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004513167 (paperback) | ISBN 9789004513174 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages. | Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages–Saudi Arabia–Mecca.
Classification: LCC BP187.3 .N268 2023 (print) | LCC BP187.3 (ebook) | DDC 297.3/5–dc23/eng/20221102
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ISSN 2210-8920
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