The British Empire and the Hajj

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The British Empire and the Hajj

Author	: John Slight
File Size	: 43,7 Mb
Publisher	: Harvard University Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 12 October 2015
ISBN	: 9780674915824
Pages	: 377 pages

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The British Empire and the Hajj by John Slight Book PDF Summary

The British Empire governed more than half the world’s Muslims. John Slight traces the empire’s complex interactions with the Hajj—the annual pilgrimage to Mecca—from the 1860s, when an outbreak of cholera led Britain to engage reluctantly in medical regulation of pilgrims, to the Suez Crisis of 1956. He gives voice to pilgrims and officials alike.

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