Ottoman Mecca and the Indian Ocean Hajj

Ottoman Mecca and the Indian Ocean Hajj

with Michael Christopher Low hosted by Sam Dolbee | In the Hijaz, the Ottoman Empire managed not only Mecca and Medina--the two holiest cities in Islam--but also port cities of the Red Sea with connections to the Indian Ocean and beyond. In this episode, Michael Christopher Low explains how the empire ruled this region as the hajj transformed thanks to steam travel in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. While European colonial anxieties about the hajj focused on epidemic disease and subversive politics, Ottoman concerns centered on the legal status of the region and its infrastructural networks. Although projects such as the Hijaz Railway are often understood as manifestations of Abdulhamid II's commitment to pan-Islam, Low suggests that these measures were more accurately a product of emerging technocratic forms of Ottoman governance. He also discusses continuities with the Saudi state. Low's book is Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj. « Click for More »

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Love Poems of an Ottoman Woman: Mihrî Hatun

Love Poems of an Ottoman Woman: Mihrî Hatun

Episode 357 with Didem Havlioğlu hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud What did it mean to be a woman in the intellectual world of early modern Is...

12 Huhti 20180s

Dragomans and the Routes of Orientalism

Dragomans and the Routes of Orientalism

Episode 354 with Natalie Rothman hosted by Nir Shafir and Aslihan Gürbüzel Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Dragomans are often known as diplomatic translators, but ...

30 Maalis 20180s

States of Emergency in the Late Ottoman Empire

States of Emergency in the Late Ottoman Empire

Episode 349 with Noémi Lévy-Aksu hosted by Taylan Güngör and Michael Talbot Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Idare-i örfiyye (or örfi idare), loosely translated as a...

28 Helmi 20180s

The Republic of Arabic Letters

The Republic of Arabic Letters

Episode 348 with Alexander Bevilacqua hosted by Maryam Patton and Shireen Hamza Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud When and how did European scholars first begin to se...

23 Helmi 20180s

Hürrem Sultan or Roxelana, Empress of the East

Hürrem Sultan or Roxelana, Empress of the East

Episode 340 with Leslie Peirce hosted by Suzie Ferguson and Seçil Yılmaz Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this episode, we explore the life and times of Roxelana,...

12 Joulu 20170s

The Tanzimat in Ottoman Cappadocia

The Tanzimat in Ottoman Cappadocia

Episode 339 with Aylin de Tapia hosted by Susanna Ferguson, Seçil Yilmaz and Ella Fratantuono Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this episode, we consider the stor...

3 Joulu 20170s

Spies of the Sultan

Spies of the Sultan

Episode 334 with Emrah Safa Gürkan hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Along with new maritime networks, information stiched together the empi...

25 Syys 20170s

Migrants in the Late Ottoman Empire

Migrants in the Late Ottoman Empire

Episode 331 with Ella Fratantuono hosted by Chris Gratien and Seçil Yılmaz Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Though it is often ignored among the many histories of t...

1 Syys 20170s

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