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

106 Chapter Three been extended to Orthodox pilgrims, to encourage more of them to go to Jeru- salem, and to make the journey le ...

Forging a Russian Hajj Route 107 concentrate pilgrims into large groups that would depart at scheduled times, to make the hajj e ...

108 Chapter Three pilgrims, for fear of increasing “fanaticism” among Russia’s Muslims. Citing a cliché of the time, one that ap ...

Forging a Russian Hajj Route 109 Figure 3.5. Hajj passport. Created in 1903 by the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Muslims maki ...

110 Chapter Three organization of transport of Muslim pilgrims to the Hejaz on Russian steam- ships. The commission was chaired ...

Forging a Russian Hajj Route 111 issues along the railways. The circular announced special seasonal hajj trans- port, with suppl ...

112 Chapter Three have been pasted up on the side of a building (in the early twentieth century the poster emerged as a new genr ...

Forging a Russian Hajj Route 113 Disembarking in Jeddah, pilgrims could leave their baggage and money on board while they perfor ...

114 Chapter Three visiting Constantinople and interfering with their religious rituals. The group wrote that in order to “increa ...

Forging a Russian Hajj Route 115 hajj season, the fleet had placed ads in Central Asia’s major newspapers, an- nouncing its new ...

116 Chapter Three Following ROPiT’s lead, the Volunteer Fleet in 1907 had introduced its own direct service to Jeddah aboard Hej ...

Forging a Russian Hajj Route 117 of the city, halfway between the train station and the port: the New York and the Bellevue, the ...

118 Chapter Three Some petitioned the Ministry of Internal Affairs, asking that their port be closed to hajj traffic.^94 Newspap ...

Forging a Russian Hajj Route 119 To this end, in 1907 Stolypin drafted, and got the Senate to ratify, “Rules on the Transport by ...

120120 4 The Hajj and Religious Politics after 1905 In 1908, Russia’s minister of internal affairs, P. A. Stolypin, appointed a ...

The Hajj and Religious Politics after 1905 121 Though he would later shift to a more conservative position, in 1908 Stolypin was ...

122 Chapter Four facilities for hajj pilgrims. He had just signed an exclusive deal with the Volun- teer Fleet to transport pilg ...

The Hajj and Religious Politics after 1905 123 hajj, but would instead provoke a backlash from many sides, above all from Muslim ...

124 Chapter Four Turkestan as an interpreter and intermediary.^11 In his account of Turkestan under Russian rule, the American d ...

The Hajj and Religious Politics after 1905 125 Saidazimbaev’s proposal, which he would shop around to tsarist officials across t ...