فصلنامه ثقافتنا
پیاپی 33 (1391)

The Algerian author and thinker، Malek Bennabi، has left some mysterious notes on Hajj which need to be fathomed and analyzed. Although he has explained precisely his observations about Hajj، according to his routine all phenomena have been analyzed through civilization hallmarks while jurisprudential issues are condoned in his works. The importance of the precious chance of Hajj has been stressed numerously in these notes and they are introduced as the emblems of Muslims’ power. Usurpers of World of Islam are afraid of Hajj، because they know that the great global gathering of Muslims during Hajj period is a good deal for transferring the reformative thoughts. In his memoires، Malek Bennabi provides a deep and compact image of religious، social and economic aspects of Mecca

Wilfred Hoffman، who has become Muslim and changed his name to Murad، had written several books about Islam; out of which diary of a German Muslim (Tagebuch eines deutschen Muslims)، Islam as Alternative (Der Islam als Alternative) and A way to Mecca (Reise nach Mekka) can be pointed out here. The German author was active in press، Foreign Ministry of Germany and also art and philosophy fields. He was an ardent fan of the Austrian Muhammad Asad، who has become Muslim before him. His experiences mostly are rooted in North Africa and Turkey. In A way To Mecca، Hoffman narrates how he has become a Muslim. He also describes his love to aesthetics generally and Islam particularly

Holy Prophet’s lifestyle in Hajj has consolidated the principle that Hajj is a mean Muslims can take advantage of it for making interaction and transaction with each other. Accordingly، the first sanctuary of Mecca، established by Abdullah bin Abbas، has started to promote jurisprudence among Muslims in Mecca. To demonstrate the cultural rich of Mecca، two prestigious books are here introduced: Eghdul Thamin fi AL-balad al-Amin (literally a precious necklace in Mecca History) written by Taghi-addin Fasi and Aldore Kamin yazil aleghd al-thamin. These books include the biographies of thousands Meccaen scientists and its scientific clans. Hajj period made Mecca and Medina two active scientific universities where were full of lesson and discussion in different languages. In this discussion، the itinerary of Andalusian Mohades is introduced as a sample which reflects scientific movement of Hajj

Jala Al-e-Ahmad is one of the greatest contemporary Iranian belletrists. Seeking for truth، he passed many stages until he succeeded to quench his thirsty. Although he was a member of Communist and liberal parties in Iran for a while، his deep thinking، clear soul and passion to his people and land helped him to come up with a decisive conclusion about nonsense nature of east and west schools. He finally found his lost truth in the thinking originality. Then he headed Hajj and lived in Hajj with all of its spiritual and popular features. The outcome of his pilgraimage was a masterpiece، called Pilgrimage which very well describes the author’s condition in the roaring surges of Hojaj in Mecca

Over the history، the great City of Mecca has always been the Muslim scholars’ kiblah. For the scholars، Hajj is a good chance for scientific transaction. Some learn new things and leave Mecca، while the other learn and prefer to reside in Mecca. The Mecca’s scientific circles are well known across the world. A constellation of intellectual، faith-based and jurisprudential discussions are conducted in such circles and they sometimes are a good literal gatherings

God’s will has determined Mecca as the origin place for reviving and revivers. The reviver Kavakebi has expressed his thoughts based on releasing Muslims from backwardness through holding an imaginary conference attended by all Muslims from different races. In this conference، the attendants have expressed their opinions with the aim of realizing Muslims development. The book was named Um ul-Ghora (mother of cities). The name shows that the author believes that the fate of Muslims will be improved only when they are gathered in a unit scene and there is not any better scene than Mecca in the world

Malcolm X experienced many ups and downs in his life، from crime misleading to converting into the bigoted Islam in the United States and ushering the pure Islam. Hajj played a fundamental role in his development. Hajj helped him to reach the summit of awareness on Islamic ideals and battle against racism. He found Quran and Sunna the best things for institutionalizing faith in God. Since then he started to find solution for African-Americans.

Historians have always given special credence to Mecca’s scholars and incidents. Mecca plays eye-catching presence in scientific biographies of Islamic scholars. However، some more activities are required to know better scholars of Mecca. To do so، the current documents and bibliographies must be used. One of the most important books of this field is Nashrul Noor va Al-Zahr. The book is the translation collection of 605 female and male Islamic scholars lived in Mecca for a while. We intend to study their life though a deserved program

Mecca’s culture has always adapted based the current condition and pilgrims of Kaaba affected it drastically. The city has always played as the balancing factor of the Muslim World during political crises. Although it enjoys a completely spiritual and scientific space، always has frightened colonialists، because Muslims in this land are free and dignified. The first development of the contemporary history of Mecca was development a print house in 1297 AH، then Ottoman constitution became an inception for introduction of a novel culture in this great city of the Muslim World.