The hajj and Europe in the age of empire / edited by Umar Ryad.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Riyāḍ, ʻAmr, editor.

Series:

Leiden studies in Islam and society ; Volume 5.

Leiden Studies in Islam and Society Series ; Volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages--Saudi Arabia--Mecca--History.

Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages--Europe.

Europeans--Saudi Arabia--Mecca.

Europeans.

Europe--Colonies--Administration.

Europe.

Europe--Relations--Islamic countries.

Islamic countries--Relgions--Europe.

Islamic countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Brill 2016

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, [2017]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The present volume focuses on the political perceptions of the Hajj, its global religious appeal to Muslims, and the European struggle for influence and supremacy in the Muslim world in the age of pre-colonial and colonial empires. In the late fifteenth century and early sixteenth century, a pivotal change in seafaring occurred, through which western Europeans played important roles in politics, trade, and culture. Viewing this age of empires through the lens of the Hajj puts it into a different perspective, by focusing on how increasing European dominance of the globe in pre-colonial and colonial times was entangled with Muslim religious action, mobility, and agency. The study of Europe’s connections with the Hajj therefore tests the hypothesis that the concept of agency is not limited to isolated parts of the globe. By adopting the “tools of empires,” the Hajj, in itself a global activity, would become part of global and trans-cultural history. With contributions by: Aldo D’Agostini; Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste; Ulrike Freitag; Mahmood Kooria; Michael Christopher Low; Adam Mestyan; Umar Ryad; John Slight and Bogusław R. Zagórski.

Contents:

Front Matter / Umar Ryad

The Hajj and Europe in the Pre-Colonial and Colonial Age / Umar Ryad

“Killed the Pilgrims and Persecuted Them”: Portuguese Estado da India’s Encounters with the Hajj in the Sixteenth Century / Mahmood Kooria

“The Infidel Piloting the True Believer”: Thomas Cook and the Business of the Colonial Hajj / Michael Christopher Low

British Colonial Knowledge and the Hajj in the Age of Empire / John Slight

French Policy and the Hajj in Late-Nineteenth-Century Algeria: Governor Cambon’s Reform Attempts and Jules Gervais-Courtellemont’s Pilgrimage to Mecca / Aldo D’Agostini

Heinrich Freiherr von Maltzan’s “My Pilgrimage to Mecca”: A Critical Investigation / Ulrike Freitag

Polish Connections to the Hajj between Mystical Experience, Imaginary Travelogues, and Actual Reality / Bogusław R. Zagórski

On his Donkey to the Mountain of ʿArafāt: Dr. Van der Hoog and his Hajj Journey to Mecca / Umar Ryad

“I Have To Disguise Myself”: Orientalism, Gyula Germanus, and Pilgrimage as Cultural Capital, 1935–1965 / Adam Mestyan

The Franco North African Pilgrims after WWII: The Hajj through the Eyes of a Spanish Colonial Officer (1949) / Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste

Index / Umar Ryad.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9789004323353

900432335X

OCLC:

1163817108

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004323353 DOI

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access