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West African pilgrims in Sudan believe that walking across the savannas and desert is the only proper way of performing the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. However, their journey appears to stop halfway in Sudan, where many of them reside in stranger enclaves as fourth- and fifth-generation immigrants. Describing themselves as transients, they see these villages as temporary stations on their way to Mecca. This book examines life in a set of pilgrim villages to show how the concept of pilgrimage is maintained. It examines why these people allow themselves to live in a state of permanent transition, and argues that here pilgrimage is a symbolic journey analogous to life itself.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Permanent Pilgrims
• Subtitle: Role of Pilgrimage in the Lives of West African Muslims in Sudan
• Author: C.Bawa Yamba
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9780748605927
• ISBN: 0748605924
• ID: 04673324
• Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Weight: 520 g
• Dimensions: 166 × 243 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. May 1995

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