Abstract
By looking at Arab-Islamic accounts, alongside Greek and French texts, it is possible, Roxanne L. Euben argues, to show how travelers from various civilizations and different religious traditions have long compared and understood themselves in terms of a shifting panoply of others. For different reasons and in different manners, pilgrims overcame dangers to visit and to pray at sites they believed marked the historical beginnings of their faith. All visitors brought with them their beliefs, traditions, and Scriptures which defined for them the holiness of the land, but to each there was a different 'holy' land from that of his counterparts. To reach a definition of the 'holy' in 'Holy Land,' the essays in this chapter examine pilgrimage/travelogues in a comparative light - both religious and 'national,' including Jewish, Christian and Muslim, as well as Syrian, Russian, Turkish, English, French, Swedish, and Dutch. Keywords:Christian; Holy Land; Muslim; pilgrims; religious traditions; travelers
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