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100	1		_aLow, Michael Christopher, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aImperial Mecca : _bOttoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean hajj / _cMichael Christopher Low.
264		1	_aNew York : _bColumbia University Press, _c[2020]
300			_axx, 392 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aColumbia studies in international and global history
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 313-357) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction : 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.
520			_a"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 their Muslim subjects to radicalizing influences from anticolonial dissidents and pan-Islamic activists. European colonial empires' newfound ability to set the terms of hajj travel not only affected the lives of millions of pilgrims but also dramatically challenged the Ottoman Empire, the world's only remaining Muslim imperial power. Michael Christopher Low analyzes the late Ottoman hajj and Hijaz region as transimperial spaces, reshaped by the competing forces of Istanbul's project of frontier modernization and the extraterritorial reach of British India's steamship empire in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea. Imperial Mecca recasts Ottoman Arabia as a distant, unstable semi-autonomous frontier that Istanbul struggled to modernize and defend against the onslaught of colonial steamship mobility. As it turned out, steamships carried not just pilgrims, passports, and microbes, but also the specter of legal imperialism and colonial intervention. Over the course of roughly a half century, from the 1850s through World War I, British India's fear of the hajj as a vector of anticolonial subversion gradually gave way to an increasingly sophisticated administrative, legal, and medical protectorate over the steamship hajj, threatening to eclipse the Ottoman state and Caliphate's prized legitimizing claim as protector of Islam's most holy places. Drawing on a wide range of Ottoman and British archival sources, this book sheds new light on the transimperial and global histories traversed along the pilgrimage to Mecca"--
650		4	_aMuslim pilgrims and pilgrimages _zSaudi Arabia _zMecca.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aLow, Michael Christopher. _tImperial Mecca _dNew York : Columbia University Press, 2020. _z9780231549097 _w(DLC) 2020001932
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