ARBAEEN PILGRIMAGE: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS FROM 2010 TO 2022

Abstract

The traditional trek to Karbala by pilgrims is a traditional and historic ceremony that has taken place for more than 13 centuries. Religion is always connected to people, and people in turn have their own religious convictions. When we talk about religion we are not talking about a religion, but about the religious context and faith. People's faith results in meetings and pilgrimages to give thanks and to make new requests. In this way people travel to sacred places according to their beliefs, thus forming religious tourism. It is known that religious tourism is important in the religious, cultural, and historical aspects and for the economic and social development. It is necessary to evaluate the different elements that the Arbaeen Pilgrimage, provides fromthe perspective of faith and religiosity tourism, as well as economic, through the scientific publications published in academic journals. Thus, this study aimed to investigate and identify the authors who are researching on the subject, as well as their view on the importance of the Arbaeen Pilgrimage". As for the methodological aspects, this is a research with a quantitative approach, and bibliometry was used as a research strategy. The search was conducted in August 2022, in Google Academic, using as a search term the keywords "Pilgrimage and Arbaeen", which appear in the title and/or abstract and which were published in academic journals. The search period was from January 2010 to August 2022. In the search performed, 480 articles were located. To compose the final sample, only articles with at least 10 citations were considered; 34 articles were found. Being that 4 articles had more than 100 citations which are from the authors: (Memish et al. 2019), (Ghodrati and Ebrahimi 2020) ,(Bielecki, et al.2020):(Shahzad et al. 2020) (Abdulredha, et, al 2018). The concentration of which articles that were cited more than 100 times, is between 2018 to 2020. We suggest further mapping studies with only the word "Arbaeen".