Abstract

Introduction Part I: Charting the Hagg over the Centuries 1. Ancient Footsteps: Southeast Asia's Earliest Muslim Pilgrims 2. Mecca's Tidal Pull: The Red Sea and Its Worlds 3. Financing Devotion: The Economics of the Pre-Moden Hajj 4. Sultanate and Crescent: Religion and Politics in the Indian Ocean Part II: The Hajj through Four Colonial Windows 5. In Conrad's Wake: Lord Jim, the Patna, and the Hajj 6. A Medical Mountain: Health Maintenance and Disease Control on the Hajj 7. The Skeptic's Eye: Snouck Hurgronje and the Politics of Pilgrimage 8. The Jeddah Consulates: Colonial Espionage in the Hejaz Part III Making the Hajj Modern 9. Regulating the Flood: The Hajj and the Independent Nation-State 10. On the Margins of Islam: Hajjis from Ourside Southeast Asia's Islamic Arc 11. I was the Guest of Allah: Hajj Memoirs and Writings from Southeast Asia 12. Remembering Devotion: Oral History and the Pilgraimage Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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