Every year hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from all over the world converge on Mecca and its precincts to perform the rituals associated with the Hajj and have been doing so since the seventh century. In this volume, scholars from a range of fields - in
Introduction Eric Tagliacozzo and Shawkat Toorawa; 1. Pilgrimage in pre-Islamic Arabia and late Antiquity Harry Munt; 2. Why Mecca? Abraham and the Hajj in the Islamic tradition Fareeha Khan; 3. The early Hajj, seventh-eighth centuries CE Travis Zadeh; 4.