The Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire
Publisher: Brill
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9789004323346; 9789004323353
Subjects: Ethnic studies; History; Islam
Description: "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 <estyan -- Franco's North African pilgrims after WWII: the hajj through the eyes of a Spanish colonial officer / Josep Lluis Mateo Dieste.
Notes: FP7 Ideas: European Research Council 336608 FP7 SC39

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