The British Empire and the Hajj : 1865-1956 /

The British Empire governed more than half the world's Muslims. John Slight traces the empire's complex interactions with the Hajj-the annual pilgrimage to Mecca-from the 1860s, when an outbreak of cholera led Britain to engage reluctantly in medical regulation of pilgrims, to the Suez Cri...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Slight, John (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]
Temas:
Communication > Social aspects > China > History > 20th century.
Communication > Social aspects.
Communism > Social aspects > China > History > 20th century.
Communism > Social aspects.
Crime > China > History > 20th century.
Discontent > Social aspects > China > History > 20th century.
Discontent > Social aspects.
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages > Saudi Arabia > Mecca > History > 20th century.
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages > Saudi Arabia > Mecca > History.
Political participation > China > History > 20th century.
Politics and culture > China > History > 20th century.
Power (Social sciences) > China > History > 20th century.
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Contexts
  • 2. Pilgrimage in the Mid-Victorian Era, c. 1865-1900
  • 3. Pilgrimage in the Edwardian Era, 1901-1914
  • 4. The First World War and the Hashemite Interregnum, 1914-1924
  • 5. Britain and the Hajj under Saudi Control, 1924-1939
  • 6. Hajj from the Far Ends of Britain's Muslim Empire, 1924-1939
  • Epilogue: Hajj in the Time of War and Decolonization, 1939-1956
  • Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Archival Sources
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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