Imperial Mecca : Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean hajj /

"With the advent of the steamship, repeated outbreaks of cholera marked oceanic pilgrimages to Mecca as a dangerous form of travel and a vehicle for the globalization of epidemic diseases. European, especially British Indian, officials also feared that lengthy sojourns in Arabia might expose th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Low, Michael Christopher (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
Colección:Columbia studies in international and global history.
Temas:
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages > Saudi Arabia > Mecca.
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages > Indian Ocean Region.
HISTORY / World.
HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire
Diplomatic relations
International relations
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages
Hejaz (Saudi Arabia) > History.
Great Britain > Relations > Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia > Relations > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Foreign relations > Turkey.
Turkey > Foreign relations > Great Britain.
Hedjaz (Arabie saoudite) > Histoire.
Great Britain
Indian Ocean Region
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia > Hejaz
Saudi Arabia > Mecca
Turkey
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Between Two Worlds : An Ottoman Island Adrift on a Colonial Ocean
  • Blurred Vision : The Hijaz and the Hajj in the Colonial Imagination
  • Legal Imperialism : Foreign Muslims and Muslim Consuls
  • Microbial Mecca and the Global Crisis of Cholera
  • Bedouins and Broken Pipes
  • Passports and Tickets
  • The Camel and the Rail
  • Epilogue : Legacies and Afterlives.

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