Low, Michael Christopher. <br/><br/>
Imperial Mecca :  Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj. 

 - New York :  Columbia University Press,  2020.  ©2020. 
 - 1 online resource (415 pages) 
 - Columbia Studies in International and Global History .
 - Columbia Studies in International and Global History .
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<br/><br/>Intro -- Table of Contents -- 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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780231549097 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Pilger<br/>Islam<br/>Haddsch
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Mekka<br/>Saudi-Arabien
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages-Saudi Arabia-Mecca. Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages-Indian Ocean Region. Hejaz (Saudi Arabia)-History. 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/><br/>Fernzugriff