Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Low, Michael Christopher Author's Email Address chrislow@earthlink.net URN etd-07082007-174715 Title Empire of the Hajj: Pilgrims, Plagues, and Pan-Islam under British Surveillance,1865-1926 Degree Master of Arts Department History Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Stephen H. Rapp Committee Chair Donald M. Reid Committee Member Keywords
- Anjuman-i Khuddam-i Ka‘ba
- British Empire
- Caliphate
- Cholera
- Hajj
- Hijaz
- India
- Indian Ocean World
- International Sanitary Conferences
- Islamic World
- Kamaran Island
- Khilafat Movement
- Mecca
- Ottoman Empire
- Pan-Islam
- Pilgrimage
- Plague
- Quarantine
- Red Sea
- Saudi Arabia
- Sultan Abdul Hamid II
- Yemen
- World History
- World War I
Date of Defense 2007-05-20 Availability unrestricted Abstract From roughly 1865 to 1926, the forces of European imperialism brought the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca under the scrutiny of non-Muslim interests. The driving force behind this dramatic change was the expansion of the British Empire’s maritime supremacy in the Indian Ocean basin. With the development of steamship travel and the opening of the Suez Canal, colonial authorities became increasingly involved in the surveillance of seaborne pilgrims. During this period, the hajj came to be recognized as both the primary conduit for the spread of epidemic diseases, such as cholera and plague, and a critical outlet for the growth of Pan-Islamic networks being forged between Indian dissidents, pilgrims, and the Ottoman Empire. As a result, the British and Ottoman empires engaged in a struggle for control of the hajj, which would ultimately reshape both the hajj and the political landscapes of the Middle East and South Asia.Files
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