Islam's Intrinsic Capacities for Improving Unity: The Function Hajj Plays in the Unity of Islamic World

Though Islamic World has constantly been prone to dialectic between unifying and divisive drives, whenever unifying elements have been manifested to a large extent, unity has been achieved. This paper is to find out what internal capacities Islam enjoys to implement such unity. Meanwhile, Hajj, as a universal worship that gathers a large number of Muslims from around the world to do the same ritual at the same space and time, has been in focus through which its capability in implementing unity in Islamic World is studied.
In terms of strengthening civilizational identity and concentrating on the common enemy, hajj could have the capacity of achieving political convergence in the Islamic World. Congregationality and anarchism of hajj ritual makes it a kind of unifying ritual. In addition, moral context and the possibility of economic interaction in hajj is to be studied for the sake of unity in the Islamic World.