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 semiautonomous 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 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.
General
| Imprint: |
Columbia University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Columbia Studies in International and Global History |
| Release date: |
October 2020 |
| First published: |
2020 |
| Authors: |
Michael Christopher Low
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 26mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
416 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-231-19077-0 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-231-19077-8 |
| Barcode: |
9780231190770 |
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