The hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire /

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The present volume focuses on the political perceptions of the Hajj, its global religious appeal to Muslims, and the European struggle for influence and supremacy in the Muslim world in the age of pre-colonial and colonial empires. In the late fifteenth century and early sixteenth century, a pivotal...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ryad, Umar (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Colección:Leiden studies in Islam and society ; v. 5.
Temas:
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages > Saudi Arabia > Mecca > History.
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages > Europe.
Europeans > Saudi Arabia > Mecca.
Européens > Arabie saoudite > La Mecque.
Ethnic studies.
History.
Humanities.
Islam.
Religion and beliefs.
Social groups.
Society and culture: general.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
Europeans
International relations
Colonies > Administration.
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages
Europe > Colonies > Administration.
Europe > Relations > Islamic countries.
Islamic countries > Relations > Europe.
Europe > Relations > Pays musulmans.
Europe
Islamic countries
Saudi Arabia > Mecca
islam.
empire.
mecca.
pilgrimage.
muslim holy places.
arabia.
hajj.
european converts to islam.
colonialism.
global history.
europe.
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  • "Killed the pilgrims and persecuted them with all kinds of cruelties": Portuguese Estado da India's encounters with the hajj in the sixteenth century / Mahmood Kooria
  • "The infidel piloting the true believer": Thomas Cook and the business of the colonial hajj / Michael Christopher Low
  • British colonial knowledge and the hajj in the Age of Empire / John Slight
  • French policy and the hajj in late-nineteenth-century Algeria: Governor Cambon's reform attempts and Jules Gervais-Courtellemont's pilgrimage to Mecca / Aldo d'aAostini
  • Heinrich Freiherr von Maltzan's "My pilgrimage to Mecca": a critical investigation / Ulrike Freitag
  • Polish connections to the hajj in the nineteenth century: mystical and imaginary travels to Mecca and the Polish cultural tradition / Boguslaw R. Zagorski
  • On his donkey to the mountain of 'Arafat: Dr. Van der Hoog and his hajj journey to Mecca / Umar Ryad
  • "I have to disguise myself": orientalism, Gyula Germanus, and pilgrimage as cultural capital, 1935-1965 / Adam Mestyan
  • Franco's North African pilgrims after WWII: the hajj through the eyes of a Spanish colonial officer / Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste.

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