The British Empire and the Hajj, 1865-1956 / John Slight.

By:

Slight, John, 1983-

Material type:

TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015Description: 440 pages ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780674504783

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

297.3/52409 23

LOC classification:

BP187.3 .S59 2015

Online resources:

Book review (H-Net)

Contents:

Contexts -- Pilgrimage in the mid-Victorian era, c. 1865-1900 -- Pilgrimage in the Edwardian era, 1901-1914 -- The first world war and the Hashemite interregnum, 1914-1924 -- Britain and the Hajj under Saudi control, 1924-1939 -- Hajj from the far ends of Britain's Muslim empire, 1924-1939 -- Hajj in the time of war and decolonization, 1939-1956.

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