The Hajj, or the Muslim Pilgrimage to the Holy Places in Mecca and Medina, is not merely a
religious undertaking of devotion for Muslims; it is a global annual event that included …

The present volume focuses on the political perceptions of the Hajj, its global religious
appeal to Muslims, and the European struggle for influence and supremacy in the Muslim …

The hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca required of all Muslims, is one of the largest and
most meaningful movements of people in the world. Last year, more than two million of the …

In the late nineteenth century, as a consequence of imperial conquest and a mobility
revolution, Russia became a crossroads of the hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca …

Over the last years, in average, 2, 1 million people per year performed the hajj. These
millions stand in contrast to the numbers visiting Mecca half a century ago. On average, until …

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 …

With the spread of steam travel through the Middle East and Asia from the 1850s, the world's
largest Muslim population zones rapidly came into closer contact than ever before. Yet the …

This study argues that the hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, served as a key connective
node in the early modern world which served as a site of encounter between both pilgrims …

Since the British Museum's popular Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam exhibition in 2012,
there has been a relative glut of English-language publications about European connections …

This dissertation examines the political and religious worlds that emerged from traffic
between the late Mughal and Ottoman empires. Focusing on the Hajj pilgrimage, it illustrates …