Download or read book Guests of God written by Robert Bianchi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-09 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the hajj is first and foremost a religious festival, it is also very much a political event. Every large Muslim state has developed a comprehensive hajj policy and a powerful bureaucracy to enforce it. This work argues, no secular or religious authority - national or international - can really control the hajj.