Russian Hajj. Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca - Eileen Kane

166 Chapter Five Scholars of Soviet cultural diplomacy have so far focused on state efforts to court Western intellectuals and e ...

The Hajj and Socialist Revolution 167 heat, repaired the roof, and built a disinfection room to process the anticipated masses o ...

168 Chapter Five At the same time, a Sovtorgflot official approached two Turkish citizens in Constantinople, Muhammad Murat Remz ...

The Hajj and Socialist Revolution 169 Remzi and Fahmi reported that pilgrims were allowed to take only the equiva- lent of 300 r ...

170 Chapter Five and would not be able to complete construction in time. It accused Sovtorgflot of misleading it about the costs ...

The Hajj and Socialist Revolution 171 had allotted for it.^45 At the same time, Kamalov faced resistance from the Per- sian gove ...

172 Chapter Five agent in Tashkent: each thought it was the other’s job to establish the khadzhikhane. Sovtorgflot also had not ...

The Hajj and Socialist Revolution 173 tap into the “middle merchantry,” getting them to organize a “broad, public campaign” to e ...

174 Chapter Five the pilgrimage meant to Afghans, and how they felt compelled to describe to their compatriots what they saw and ...

The Hajj and Socialist Revolution 175 on the floor. There was no water on the trains for pilgrims to drink and perform ablutions ...

176 Chapter Five suggested that pilgrims be told to bring no more Soviet currency than they could spend while in the USSR.^65 So ...

The Hajj and Socialist Revolution 177 It committed precious ruble resources to building Sovtorgflot’s service, allot- ting a sub ...

178 Chapter Five rugs. Pilgrims were allowed unlimited luggage in transit through the USSR; on the steamship they were allowed f ...

The Hajj and Socialist Revolution 179 superior comfort based on Sovtorgflot’s “flashy” newspaper advertisements, Persian pilgrim ...

180 Chapter Five later investigation revealed that the Soviet consul in Tabriz had not received this order, and had issued hundr ...

The Hajj and Socialist Revolution 181 officials opposed Sovtorgflot’s recruitment and hiring of foreign mullahs and imams to wor ...

182 Chapter Five Isolating Soviet citizens from transit hajj pilgrims was difficult, given the variety of routes they took, and ...

183183 Conclusion: Russian Hajj in the Twenty-First Century In the twenty-first century, the hajj has once again become a Europe ...

184 Conclusion quotas, and almost never grant them. Many countries have long waiting lists, and Muslims often wait years for the ...

Russian Hajj in the Twenty-First Century 185 colonies. To the contrary, tsarist Russia forged its empire in part through global ...