"Lonely Wayfarer's Guide to Pilgrimage" PDF

[Mikael Muehlbauer]

Dear all,

Does anyone have a PDF of Abū al-Ḥasan al-Harawī, Lonely Wayfarer’s Guide to Pilgrimage, trans. Josef W. Meri, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam (Princeton: Darwin Press, 2004). they can share?

Many thanks

Mikael

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[Robert Morehouse]

I would also be very thankful for access.

Kind thanks

Rob

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[Vevian Zaki]

I am also very interested in this work and would be grateful to receive a copy.

Thanks, 

Vevian

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[Mehdy Shaddel]

I would appreciate a copy too!

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M

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[Whitney Bodman]

I would as well.

I read it a long time ago but had to part with my copy in a downsizing.

Whit

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[Vevian Zaki]

 al-Harawi, A_Lonely_Wayfarers_Guide_To_Pilgrimage.pdf

Dear colleagues,

Some time ago, a few of us were looking for a PDF of Lonely Wayfarer’s Guide to Pilgrimage. It has finally been found. Here it is!

Warm regards, 

Vevian

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[Mikael Muehlbauer]

Hooray!

Thank you very much for this!

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[Robert Morehouse]

Wonderful! Thank you! 

- Rob

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[Martino Diez]

Dear all,

Following the lead of very unusual questions: 

In a medieval Copto-Arabic text I am working on, it is stated that a notable was buried in the village’s church. Coming from a Western Latin background, I instinctively visualized this as a funeral stone placed on the floor of the church, possibly with a brief inscription, but then I realized that this may not at all be the case for the medieval Coptic tradition. Does anybody know what it practically meant that a notable “was buried in a church”? Can we expect to find an inscription or any visible sign?

Thank you very much,

Martino

Martino Diez

Associate professor of Arabic

Catholic University of Milan

[Armanios, Febe]

Dear Martino,

There are much later historical references to this practice. They suggest that the person would be buried in a communal cemetery nearby the church (not inside the church).

Check out Winifred Susan Blackman's "The Fellahin of Upper Egypt" (1927) where she describes a rural Coptic funerary tradition in depth.

Best,

Febe Armanios

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[Pahlitzsch, Prof. Dr. Johannes]

Dear Martino,

you may check the canonical questions submitted by the (Melkite) Patriarch Mark III of Alexandria during his visit to Constantinople in 1195, and the synod’s responses. Here a quote from the version attributed to Theodore Balsamon (trans. by P.D. Viscuso, Guide for a Church under Islam: The Sixty-Six Canonical Questions Attributed to Theodoros Balsamon, Brookline, MA, 2014, p. 113) :

 

Question 41:

By reason of an ancient indigenous custom, corpses of Orthodox are buried in our local churches [i.e. the Melkite churches in Egypt]. Therefore, I seek to learn whether this is without danger of condemnation.

 

Response:

There is a great difference between churches that are consecrated through dedicatory openings and enthronement, chrism of holy myron, and a deposit of holy relics of martyrs; and those not sanctified in this way and providing a place of prayer. For which reason, in the former in which the relics of martyrs have clearly been deposited, and in their midst you placed the chrism of holy myron, no human corpse of whatever kind shall be buried consistent with chapter 2 of title 1 of book 5 of the Basilika, which states, "Let no one bury dead in a church," and according to the old text in addition, which states, "It is not permitted to bury anyone in a church, if clearly the body of a martyr is laid in that place." Corpses are buried without danger in those holy houses called oratories (euktious) that are not consecrated in this manner.

 

Cf. also the attached paper by Viscuso, esp. pp 240ff.

 

Best

Johannes

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