Michael Gilsenan

Michael Gilsenan is professor of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at New York University. His books include Lords of the Lebanese Marches.

Letter

The Haj

19 October 2006

There is an error in my review of Abdellah Hammoudi’s A Season in Mecca (LRB, 19 October). Trips by land to the Holy Places were forbidden in 1999 in Morocco but that prohibition is not necessarily true of all states in every pilgrimage season.

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Politics and the Prophet

Malise Ruthven, 1 August 1996

For too long Islamic studies have existed in an academic ghetto which reinforced the essentialist view shared by the Islamologues, that Islam was somehow ‘different’ from the West. A...

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