Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa
Mecca (Makkah al-Mukarrama)
Title
Music in the rites and acts of the Pilgrimage
Short description
Drums are sounded at the hours of prayers, morning and evening.
Text on source
وإذا كان في أول يوم شهر ذي الحجة تُضْرَب الطبول والدبادب في أوقات الصلوات بكرة وعشية إشعارًا بالموسم المبارك، ولا تزال كذلك إلى يوم الصعود إلى عرفات [ص. ١٢٠]
English translation
On the first day of the month of Dhu'l-Ḥijja the drums [ṭubūl] and cylindric drums [dabādib] are sounded at the hours of prayer and in the morning and evening, to mark the blessed festival season, and they continued to be so sounded until the day of the ascent to 'Arafat.
Folios/Pages
242-243
Date
1326 circa
Observations on the events description
Ibn Baṭṭūṭa draws most of his account of practices in Mecca from Ibn Jubayr who participated in the pilgrimage in 1183-1185.
The dots on the map indicate the places where sound and music events were described. They don't represent travel stages.
Participants
No other participants in this event description.
How to quote
Pintimalli A., "Music in the rites and acts of the Pilgrimage" (Event description), Echos. Sound Ecosystems in Travelogues. Published 2024 07 09.doi: 10.25430/echos.travels.130
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