Russian Hajj. Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca - Eileen Kane
6 Introduction hierarchy that the Russian state built—whether it functioned, as Russian rulers hoped it would, as a means of sta ...
Russia as a Crossroads of the Global Hajj 7 imperialism.^14 Across colonial contexts, the introduction of railroads and steamshi ...
8 Introduction routes that were largely beyond the view or comprehension of colonial officials in any given setting. Also, colon ...
Russia as a Crossroads of the Global Hajj 9 Following the historian William Roff ’s influential “twin threat” thesis, schol- ars ...
10 Introduction Unlike France and especially Britain, Russia had no entrenched trade interests or extensive consular presence in ...
Russia as a Crossroads of the Global Hajj 11 The story I tell in this book reveals Russia’s involvement in one of the great glo ...
12 Introduction A study of the hajj also pushes the boundaries of conventional spatial fram- ings of Russian imperial history. H ...
Russia as a Crossroads of the Global Hajj 13 and fuzzy in the minds of imperial officials, many of whom saw them as imper- manen ...
14 Introduction their status as Russian subjects, and loyalty to the tsar. However, we should be more circumspect. Many Muslims ...
Russia as a Crossroads of the Global Hajj 15 The Soviet regime, too, would embrace a similar position, when it came to power in ...
16 Introduction To recover this history, I have pieced together sources gathered from archives and collections across former Rus ...
1717 1 Imperialism through Islamic Net works In 1848 a Russian subject named Kasym Mamad died in Arabia while per- forming the h ...
18 Chapter One track down the camel driver in question—a rich Damascene and Ottoman sub- ject named Hajji al-Esmer—and had him b ...
Imperialism through Islamic Networks 19 mid-nineteenth century that made the Russian Empire a center of global hajj routes and t ...
20 Chapter One Notwithstanding these challenges and complexities, Russia over the nine- teenth and early twentieth centuries wou ...
Imperialism through Islamic Networks 21 see itself as a colonial empire like its European rivals, and created a new impe- rial b ...
22 Chapter One rebellions across the North Caucasus in the early 1820s, he worried that the hajj was feeding this resistance, an ...
Imperialism through Islamic Networks 23 In one awkward exchange in 1824, an Islamic judge (kadi) representing the Dargin communi ...
24 Chapter One This shift was again a result of Russia’s changing geopolitics in the wider region—namely, its growing interest a ...
Imperialism through Islamic Networks 25 continued to grow after the Ottomans reasserted control of the region. Having gained a f ...
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