Imperial Mecca : : Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj / / Michael Christopher Low.
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 Mu...
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| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- A Note on Sources, Transliteration, and Dates
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Between Two Worlds An Ottoman Island Adrift on a Colonial Ocean
- PART ONE Extraterritorial Frontiers
- ONE Blurred Vision The Hijaz and the Hajj in the Colonial Imagination
- TWO Legal Imperialism Foreign Muslims and Muslim Consuls
- PART TWO Ecologies of Empire
- THREE Microbial Mecca and the Global Crisis of Cholera
- FOUR Bedouins and Broken Pipes
- PART THREE Managing Mobility
- FIVE Passports and Tickets
- SIX The Camel and the Rail
- Epilogue Legacies and Afterlives
- Notes
- Abbreviations
- Index