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Russian Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca, written by Eileen Kane

Russian Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca, written by Eileen Kane Eileen Kane, Russian Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015). Pp. 241, $ 35.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-0-8014-5423-3.Eileen Kane’s account of the Russian Hajj taps into a fascinating story that Daniel Brower had once called “a blind spot in studies of Russian colonial rule” (Daniel Brower, “Russian Roads to Mecca,” Slavic Review 55(3) (1996): 568). It examines the late-tsarist and early-Soviet states’ engagements with the annual pilgrimage of many thousands of Muslims to Mecca from primarily Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Volga-Ural region but also from China, Persia, and Afghanistan. To cover the history of such a wide-reaching transregional movement, Kane combs through archives in many different cities as well as periodical literature, document collections, and published and unpublished memoirs in the Russian and Turkic languages. The resulting synthesis is relevant to students of the Russian empire, the Soviet Union, the Ottoman territories, and Central Asia. Thematically, it should appeal to those interested in imperialism, colonialism, and migratory movements.Kane begins her narrative by asserting that in “the late nineteenth century Russia took on a new role in the world: patron of the hajj” and extends this argument to the Soviet Union of the late 1920s in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

Russian Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca, written by Eileen Kane

Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 51 (1): 3 – Jan 1, 2017

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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0090-8290
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2210-2396
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10.1163/22102396-05101007
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Eileen Kane, Russian Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015). Pp. 241, $ 35.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-0-8014-5423-3.Eileen Kane’s account of the Russian Hajj taps into a fascinating story that Daniel Brower had once called “a blind spot in studies of Russian colonial rule” (Daniel Brower, “Russian Roads to Mecca,” Slavic Review 55(3) (1996): 568). It examines the late-tsarist and early-Soviet states’ engagements with the annual pilgrimage of many thousands of Muslims to Mecca from primarily Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Volga-Ural region but also from China, Persia, and Afghanistan. To cover the history of such a wide-reaching transregional movement, Kane combs through archives in many different cities as well as periodical literature, document collections, and published and unpublished memoirs in the Russian and Turkic languages. The resulting synthesis is relevant to students of the Russian empire, the Soviet Union, the Ottoman territories, and Central Asia. Thematically, it should appeal to those interested in imperialism, colonialism, and migratory movements.Kane begins her narrative by asserting that in “the late nineteenth century Russia took on a new role in the world: patron of the hajj” and extends this argument to the Soviet Union of the late 1920s in

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Published: Jan 1, 2017

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