Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 414 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 414 g
Reihe: Leiden Studies in Islam and Society
ISBN: 978-90-04-32334-6
Verlag: Brill
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 Boguslaw R. Zagórski.
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Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
- Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie
Weitere Infos & Material
Chapter 1 Mahmood Kooria, “Killed the pilgrims and persecuted them with all kinds of cruelties”: Portuguese Estado da India’s encounters with the Hajj in the sixteenth century.
Chapter 2 Michael Christopher Low, “The Infidel Piloting the True Believer”: Thomas Cook and the business of the colonial Hajj.
Chapter 3 John Slight, British colonial knowledge and the Hajj in the Age of Empire.
Chapter 4 Aldo D’Agostini, French Policy and the Hajj in late-nineteenth-century Algeria: Governor Cambon’s reform attempts and Jules Gervais-Courtellemont’s pilgrimage to Mecca.
Chapter 5 Ulrike Freitag, Heinrich Freiherr von Maltzan’s “My Pilgrimage to Mecca”: A critical investigation.
Chapter 6 Boguslaw R. Zagórski, Polish connections to the Hajj in the nineteenth century: Mystical and imaginary travels to Mecca and the Polish cultural tradition.
Chapter 7 Umar Ryad, On his donkey to the Mountain of 'Arafat: Dr. Van der Hoog and his Hajj journey to Mecca.
Chapter 7 Adam Mestyan, “I Have To Disguise Myself”: Orientalism, Gyula Germanus, and pilgrimage as cultural capital, 1935–1965.
Chapter 9 Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste, Franco’s North African pilgrims after WWII: The Hajj through the Eyes of a Spanish colonial officer (1949).
