Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj

by Michael Christopher Low

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231190778
• ISBN13: 9780231190770
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"