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Author:

Slight, John, 1983- author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

440 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Subject:

Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages--Mecca--Mecca--History.
Great Britain--Administration.--Administration.
Great Britain--History.--ISaudi Arabia--History.
Saudi Arabia--History.--Great Britain--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- Epilogue: Hajj in the time of war and decolonization, 1939-1956.

ISBN:

067450478X
9780674504783

OCLC:

(OCoLC)906121676

LCCN:

2015007426

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)