The longest journey : Southeast Asians and the pilgrimage to Mecca / Eric Tagliacozzo.

Tagliacozzo, Eric.
Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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Notes:

  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-346)
  • Deep structure, longue-duree: charting the hajj over the centuries. Ancient footsteps: Southeast Asia’s earliest Muslim pilgrims — Mecca’s tidal pull: the Red Sea and its worlds — Financing devotion: the economics of the pre-modern hajj — Sultanate and crescent: religion and politics in the Indian Ocean — Sailor, doctor, statesman, spy: the hajj through four colonial windows. In Conrad’s wake: Lord Jim, the Patna , and the hajj — A medical mountain: health maintenance and disease control on the hajj — The skeptic’s eye: Snouck Hurgronje and the politics of pilgrimage — The Jeddah consulates: colonial espionage in the Hejaz — Making the hajj modern : pilgrims, states, and memory. Regulating the flood: the hajj and the independent nation-state — On the margins of Islam: hajjis from outside Southeast Asia’s Islamic arc — I was the guest of Allah : hajj memoirs and writings from Southeast Asia — Remembering devotion: oral history and the pilgrimage.

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