Rich Man – Poor Man: Two Muslim Pilgrims in Ottoman Cairo of the 17th Century

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Keywords: Ottoman Egypt; Islam; cult of knowledge; rihla; hajj; ziyara

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Krayushkin N.R. Rich Man – Poor Man: Two Muslim Pilgrims in Ottoman Cairo of the 17th Century. // Lomonosov Oriental Studies Journal. 2019. N 3, p.42–52

Krayushkin N.R. (Lomonosov Moscow State University)
(Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences)

Abstract

Drawing on travel accounts by Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi and Muhammad Kibrit, the article compares two seventeenth-century Muslim pilgrims’ experiences in Ottoman Cairo and their contacts with its religious and intellectual circles.