...Gregory Mann; Baz Lecocq Duke University Press 2007 Between Empire, Umma, and the Muslim Third World: The French Union and African Pilgrims to Mecca, 1946 – 1958 Gregory Mann and Baz Lecocq rance was not very “Republican” in its empire. Indeed, this observation...

... militant in colonial India. From 1818, the East India Company secured its sovereignty by designating as deviant or permissible a host of itinerant figures in and around South Asia. In police records, court transcripts, and legislative archives, pilgrims with links to Arabia accordingly began appearing...

...Elyse Semerdjian Abstract The affective horrors of the Armenian genocide leave traces upon the living. Most pilgrims who visit sites of mass killing in contemporary Syria and Turkey note that they feel a profound sense of sadness and are overcome with tears of mourning while visiting the sites...

... is a concern for the modern fashioning and reimagining of India as a Buddhist “homeland.” In the past century and a half, Buddhist homeland discourses in South Asia have fostered heightened contact between national leaders, Buddhist royalty, entrepreneurs, artists, monastics, and pilgrim-travelers in ways...

... and seminomadic tribes, pilgrims, princes, sheikhs and ayatollahs, and, many a time, armies. Yet unlike any other frontier region, this one also witnessed caravans carrying the corpses and bones of the faithful to be buried in the cemeter...

... is surely impressed by the crowd of pilgrims coming from various places in order to express their devotion and be in close, intimate contact with a source of sa- cred power. The same visitor is also sure to be overwhelmed by the market activities that take place near or sometimes inside...

...- doms, which are followed by the heavenly kingdom. III. Medieval (and later) commentary on this passage In 1064 Bishop Gunther of Bamberg led a group of equated the kingdoms with the reigns of Babylonians, more than seven thousand pilgrims (by some accounts...

... Katz: Legitimizing Jordan as the Holy Land 183 made frequent reference to the Palestine problem. He claring, “We must make them listen to us while our used the occasion to comment during a press confer- country is swarming with delegations…pilgrims, visitors ence about the injustices...

... the Heideggerian roots of Al-­e Ahmad’s political and that is used to refer to the shrines in Mecca in philosophy, argue that this essentialist tendency which hajj pilgrims put on the ihram, the pilgrim’s is the intellectual inheritor of Heidegger’s attrac- garb. According to Muslim...

... are strangers and who are in a condition apt for contracting cholera. Such are particularly the Mussulman pilgrims who come to Bombay to embark for Mecca.” 75 Indeed, epidemics were generally thought to originate from “Asia.” At the 1866 International Sanitary Conference, India, specifically, was singled...

... pilgrims to and from that reflected the partisan divides on the very nature Mecca, who preferred the rail-sea road to the long and of cholera and its transmission. On the one hand, the arduous caravan treks across the HijaAs it hap- anti-contagionists, led by England, espoused Max Jo- pened...

... . Low Michael Christopher . “ Empire and the Hajj: Pilgrims, Plagues, and Pan-Islam under British Surveillance, 1865–1908 .” International Journal of Middle East Studies 40 ( 2008 ): 269 – 90 . Marston Thomas . Britain’s Imperial Role in the Red Sea Area, 1800–1878 . Hamden, CT...

... , no. 3 ( 2012 ): 584 – 90 . ———. The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History of “The Pilgrim's Progress.” Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2004 . ———. “Universalizing the Indian Ocean.” PMLA 125 , no. 3 ( 2010 ): 721 – 29 . ———. “Violent Texts, Vulnerable Readers...

... spirators” in the ulema who failed to protect the in their name” was one reason some Ottoman area from the un- Islamic practices of pilgrims, sultans were reluctant to respond to their calls their charges had far broader implications. In for help against Wahhabi attacks on Mecca and particular...

... to capture the perfect selfie on a monastery roof with awe-inspiring mountains as a backdrop. The interest shown by tourists and pilgrims who visit Ladakh based on their understanding that Ladakh might somehow be “Little Tibet” and one of the few remaining bastions of Tibetan Buddhism has helped to position...

... on in the lives of Husain Tekri's contemporary pilgrims. 14 Land disputes are not the only relevant context surrounding the origin of Husain Tekri. Consider Jaora's trade policies in the years surrounding the miraculous events of 1886: in 1881 transit duties on salt were abolished and in 1887 transit...

... converged. 11 Rather than going through the land route, traders and pilgrims traveled between India and cities in eastern Iran like Mashhad, Birjand, and Sistan via the sea route from Karachi/Bombay to Bandar Abbas, then continued on to Kerman and Birjand by caravan tracks. 12 Even when travelers...

..., the sada’s celebrations from inside. These ar- a Hadhrami sayyid who rose to the position of rangements are made for the mass of Javanese governor in the province of Gorontalo, as well pilgrims. Most of these pilgrims travel to Solo as the mayor of Palu regularly...

... likewise revolving shrine economy visi- the of grows, number tors the as vis- Naturally, of pilgrims. piety iting the on capitalize loitering to hoping even beggars and lodging, visit- souvenirs, service, the transportation, food to including cater that pilgrims, to services ing shrine and a products...

... University Press , 2016 . Hofmeyr Isabel . The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History of “The Pilgrim's Progress.” Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2004 . Hourani Albert . Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, 1789–1939 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1983...