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

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Mt. Athos

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Beirut

Ismailiia

Al’mushev’s hajj route, 1899

Akchura’s hajj route, 1911

via rail

via steamship

via land

Quarantine

Map illustrating hajj routes taken by Al’mushev (1899) and Akchura (1911)

Moscow

Simbirsk

St. Petersburg

Warsaw

Vienna

Budapest

Trieste

Belgrade

Sofia

Constantinople

Izmir

Thessaloniki

Cairo Suez

Damascus

Jerusalem

El-Tor Tabuk

Medina

Mecca

Riazan

Tver

Pskov

Vilno

Grodno

Tripoli

Jaffa

Melitopol

Kharkov

Kursk

Orel

Tula

Viazma

Kaluga

Briansk

Brest Pinsk Gomel

Feodosiia

Batumi

Sevastopol

Odessa

Beirut

Ismailiia

Maan

MEDITERRANEAN SEA

Moscow

Simbirsk

St. Petersburg

Warsaw

Vienna

Budapest

Trieste

Belgrade

Sofia

Constantinople

Izmir

Thessaloniki

Alexandria

Cairo Suez

Port

Said Damascus

Jerusalem

El-Tor Tabuk

Medina

Jeddah Mecca

Riazan

Tver

Pskov

Vilno

Grodno

Tripoli

Jaffa

Melitopol

Kharkov

Kursk

Orel

Tula

Viazma

Kaluga

Briansk

Brest Pinsk Gomel

Map 6. Hajj routes through Central Europe followed by Al’mushev (1899) and Akchura

(1911).