IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/sprchp/978-3-031-36686-4_11.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

The Hajj in Communist Eyes: Abdullah Malik’s Hajj as an Islamic Dystopia

In: Interdisciplinary Reflections on South Asian Transitions

Author

Listed:
  • Raza Naeem

Abstract

Based on original, first-time translations in English from Abdullah Malik’s little-known Hajj travelogue, the chapter will examine the acclaimed twentieth-century Pakistani communist writer Abdullah Malik’s most provocative claim about the Hajj pilgrimage, and by extension, Saudi Arabia. In the travelogue entitled Hadees-e-Dil (Hadith of the Heart), he wrote after his 1972–1973 trip to Saudi Arabia—a half-century ago this year—for the Hajj, Malik argued that the Hajj is an Islamic dystopia: a (Saudi) society not to be emulated by Pakistan but that could change if a progressive government is established in Riyadh; and the Hajj pilgrimage could be used for far-reaching results and a means to free Muslims everywhere from their subservience to the West.

Suggested Citation

  • Raza Naeem, 2023. "The Hajj in Communist Eyes: Abdullah Malik’s Hajj as an Islamic Dystopia," Springer Books, in: Bhabani Shankar Nayak & Debadrita Chakraborty (ed.), Interdisciplinary Reflections on South Asian Transitions, chapter 0, pages 193-204, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-36686-4_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-36686-4_11
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-36686-4_11. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.