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	<title>Old Roads Blog &#187; pilgrimage</title>
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	<description>interpretations of places, books, and other texts</description>
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		<title>Could the Hajj Be Different?</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2010/05/could-the-hajj-be-different/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 14:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The above video details expansion plans for the mosque in Mecca. The mosque now has the appearance of a giant stadium, having been enlarged by the Saudis. The changes to this mosque are already so great that if a medieval pilgrim could visit the current mosque, he would find the place and the experience completely transformed. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Economy of Tomb Visitation</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2010/02/the-economy-of-tomb-visitation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cairo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA['Ali ibn Abu Bakr al-Harawi turns out to be a very well traveled individual. He died in 1215 A.D., leaving behind a book that lists sights to be seen in cities from North Africa to Iran. This book has been translated by Josef Meri under the title A Lonely Wayfarers Guide to Pilgrimage. Readers beware: it has none of the charm of the book by his contemporary Ibn Jubayr, who gives personal glimpses of life on the road.]]></description>
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		<title>The Stable Mean and Poor &#8211; Bethlehem</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/07/the-stable-mean-and-poor-bethlehem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Melville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pilgrimage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The final book of Herman Melville's epic poem Clarel is entitled Bethlehem, and at its center is a guided visit to the Church of the Nativity. The guide who gets to escort this band of doubters and skeptics is a young Franciscan from Tuscany.]]></description>
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		<title>My Hotel in Tanta</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/07/my-hotel-in-tanta/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hotel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modern Egypt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tanta is a large city in the Nile delta. It has about 400,000 inhabitants, yet there is basically nothing to do. The one thing that almost counts as a tourist site is the Sayyid Badawy mosque, which every fall is the site for the largest pilgrimage in Egypt.]]></description>
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		<title>Melville and the Mediterranean</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/06/melville-and-the-mediterranean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[academy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerusalem]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The "Melville and the Mediterranean" conference was sponsored by the Melville Society.. and the idea was to talk about Melville's relatively unknown epic poem about a pilgrimage through the Holy Land. This conference has been an opportunity to hear lots of papers on the topic of Melville, but at the same time we've spent afternoons getting around to the places that Melville saw.]]></description>
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		<title>Hunger for the Real in Jerusalem</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/06/hunger-for-the-real-in-jerusalem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm not big on setting down laws of human behavior, but I am tempted to declare that human beings long for the real. That longing is a spur for pilgrimage.. and here in Jerusalem it's obvious almost everywhere I look.]]></description>
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		<title>Tourists in Church of Holy Sepulcher</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/06/tourists-in-church-of-holy-sepulcher/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The above video clip captures some of the liveliness on the streets of the old city as one gets close to the church. We are standing at #6 of the Stations of the Cross. I begin to film the street but then get surprised by a procession of middle-aged women marching down the street and carrying a cross.]]></description>
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		<title>Adomnán&#8217;s Book on the Holy Places</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/06/adomnans-book-on-the-holy-places/</link>
		<comments>http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/06/adomnans-book-on-the-holy-places/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jerusalem]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Place Sites]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An example of a book like this is Adomnan and the Holy Places by Thomas O'Loughlin, although strictly speaking it is not a new publication since it came out in 2007. It was published by T &#038; T Clark, and I happened to come across it in some catalog and then requested that our library pick it up.]]></description>
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