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

Raza Naeem

Chapter Chapter 11 in Interdisciplinary Reflections on South Asian Transitions, 2023, pp 193-204 from Springer

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-36686-4_11

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