Image and Pilgrimage 3 - William Pfeiffer

The third entry I'm doing from Image and Pilgrimage involves quotes from Bernard Lewis's from the Encyclopedia of Islam in which he contrasts the pilgrimages of Muslims and Christians. Paraphrased, he says that the pilgrimages Muslim's took led to a more organized society, with literature traveling across the lands and information about distant places coming in. Also, there was usually a common language spoken by all Muslims that aided in better communication among them. This is in contrast to the Christian pilgrimages where, for example, there were 25 different languages spoken among the Franks alone.