Imperial Mecca - Michael Christopher Low

Imperial Mecca

Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj
Buch | Softcover
416 Seiten
2020
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-19077-0 (ISBN)
37,40 inkl. MwSt
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.

Michael Christopher Low is assistant professor of history at the University of Utah. He is coeditor of The Subjects of Ottoman International Law (2020).

List of Illustrations
A Note on Sources, Transliteration, and Dates
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Between Two Worlds: An Ottoman Island Adrift on a Colonial Ocean
Part I: Extraterritorial Frontiers
1. Blurred Vision: The Hijaz and the Hajj in the Colonial Imagination
2. Legal Imperialism: Foreign Muslims and Muslim Consuls
Part II: Ecologies of Empire
3. Microbial Mecca and the Global Crisis of Cholera
4. Bedouins and Broken Pipes
Part III: Managing Mobility
5. Passports and Tickets
6. The Camel and the Rail
Epilogue: Legacies and Afterlives
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Columbia Studies in International and Global History
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Islam
ISBN-10 0-231-19077-8 / 0231190778
ISBN-13 978-0-231-19077-0 / 9780231190770
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