The British Empire and the Hajj : : 1865-1956 / / John Slight.
The British Empire governed more than half the world's Muslims. John Slight traces the empire's complex interactions with the Hajj-the annual pilgrimage to Mecca-from the 1860s, when an outbreak of cholera led Britain to engage reluctantly in medical regulation of pilgrims, to the Suez Cri...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (456 p.) :; 14 halftones, 4 maps, 1 table |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Contexts
- 2. Pilgrimage in the Mid-Victorian Era, c. 1865-1900
- 3. Pilgrimage in the Edwardian Era, 1901-1914
- 4. The First World War and the Hashemite Interregnum, 1914-1924
- 5. Britain and the Hajj under Saudi Control, 1924-1939
- 6. Hajj from the Far Ends of Britain's Muslim Empire, 1924-1939
- Epilogue: Hajj in the Time of War and Decolonization, 1939-1956
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Glossary
- Archival Sources
- Acknowledgments
- Index