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Russian Hajj - Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca (Paperback)
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Russian Hajj - Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca (Paperback)
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In the late nineteenth century, as a consequence of imperial
conquest and a mobility revolution, Russia became a crossroads of
the hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. The first book in
any language on the hajj under tsarist and Soviet rule, Russian
Hajj tells the story of how tsarist officials struggled to control
and co-opt Russia's mass hajj traffic, seeing it as not only a
liability but also an opportunity. To support the hajj as a matter
of state surveillance and control was controversial, given the
preeminent position of the Orthodox Church. But nor could the hajj
be ignored, or banned, due to Russia's policy of toleration of
Islam. As a cross-border, migratory phenomenon, the hajj stoked
officials' fears of infectious disease, Islamic revolt, and
interethnic conflict, but Eileen Kane innovatively argues that it
also generated new thinking within the government about the utility
of the empire's Muslims and their global networks.
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