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" The Mechanics of Mecca: The Technopolitics of the Late Ottoman Hijaz and the Colonial Hajj "
Michael Christopher Low
Bulliet, Richard W.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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803421
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TL48208
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1680843254; 3701196
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Islam, Md Mozahidul
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The Mechanics of Mecca: The Technopolitics of the Late Ottoman Hijaz and the Colonial Hajj\ Michael Christopher LowBulliet, Richard W.
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Columbia University
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2015
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Ph.D.
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History
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2015
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381
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Committee members: Khalidi, Rashid; Mikhail, Alan; Mitchell, Timothy; Philliou, Christine
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-71692-4
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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 during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I argue that from the early 1880s onward, Ottoman administrators embarked on an ambitious redefinition of the empire’s Arab tribal frontiers. Through modern engineering, technology, medicine, and ethnography, they set out to manage human life and the resources needed to sustain it, transform Bedouins into proper subjects, and gradually replace autonomous political life with more rigorous forms of territorial power.
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Middle Eastern history; World History; Middle Eastern Studies; Modern history
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Social sciences;Hijaz;Mecca;Ottoman Empire;Pilgrimage;Public health;Technopolitics
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Bulliet, Richard W.
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HistoryColumbia University
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