The Mechanics of Mecca: The Technopolitics of the Late Ottoman Hijaz and the Colonial Hajj
Drawing on Ottoman and British archival sources as well as published materials in Arabic and modern Turkish, this dissertation analyzes how the Hijaz and the hajj to Mecca simultaneously became objects of Ottoman modernization, global public health, international law, and inter-imperial competition...
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| Language: | English |
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2015
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.7916/D8W95880 |