Religious Tourism‍
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By: student Muhammad Riyad Kazim Supervised by: Lect. Yasmine Hatem Badid‍
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Religious tourism is travel for the purpose of visiting holy places. Tourism is an industry linked to the human desire for knowledge and crossing borders. Tourism in general, and religious tourism in particular, will remain one of the most emerging and most established industries in the future. Religious tourism occupies a distinguished position and prominent place in the civilizations of peoples and their economies. In addition to its economic returns, it constitutes important civilizational landmarks for rapprochement and understanding between peoples.‍
As soon as we mention a scholar of the nation, we find that he traveled to many countries, and moved between the East and Ghazal from Andalusia and Morocco to Cairo, Damascus, Istanbul, Baghdad, and the cities of Bashar Iran, Khorasan, Capua, and Central Asia and vice versa, with the aim of learning and increasing from it. The more the world travels, the more its knowledge and information increases. Tourism has witnessed a great boom during the past centuries, especially the tourism of scholars, travelers and historians such as Al-Masudi, Al-Khwarizmi, Al-Biruni, Al-Idrisi, Ibn Fadlan (who reached northern Europe), Ibn Battuta, Hamdallah Al-Mustawfi, Ibn Jubayr, Yaqut Al-Hamawi, Ibn Asakir, Ibn Sina, Jabir Ibn Hayyan, Al-Kindi, Al-Farabi and others. The horizons of their knowledge expanded and Islamic peoples and other peoples of the world benefited from their knowledge and experiences. Many of their writings are still considered among the most important scientific sources and are studied in most universities around the world.‍