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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Intellectual Currents in Early Modern Islam

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Visual Sources in Late Ottoman History

Visual Sources in Late Ottoman History

Episode 327 with contributions by Zeynep Çelik, Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular, Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen, Mehmet Kentel, Michael Talbot, Murat Yıldız, Burçak Özlüdil Altın, Seçil Yılmaz, Burçin Çakır, Zeinab A...

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Kemalism and the Making of Modern Turkey

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Episode 323 with Erik-Jan Zürcher hosted by Andreas Guidi and Elif Becan Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this collaboration with The Southeast Passage, we discu...

6 Heinä 20170s

Ottoman New York

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24 Kesä 20170s

Sabbatai Sevi and the Ottoman-Turkish Dönmes

Sabbatai Sevi and the Ottoman-Turkish Dönmes

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27 Maalis 20170s

Syrian Alawis under Ottoman Rule

Syrian Alawis under Ottoman Rule

Episode 303 with Stefan Winter hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Although the Alawi communities of Syria have played an important role in the...

4 Maalis 20170s

Rethinking "Decline" in the Second Ottoman Empire

Rethinking "Decline" in the Second Ottoman Empire

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17 Helmi 20170s

Exploring the Art of the Qur'an

Exploring the Art of the Qur'an

Episode 297 with Massumeh Farhad & Simon Rettig hosted by Emily Neumeier Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The preeminent position of manuscript painting and poetry ...

10 Helmi 20170s

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