In the late nineteenth century, as a consequence of imperial conquest and a mobility revolution, Russia became a crossroads of the hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. The first book in any language on the hajj under tsarist and Soviet rule, Russian Hajj tells the story of how tsarist officials struggled to control and co-opt Russia's mass hajj traffic, seeing it not on...(展开全部)

In the late nineteenth century, as a consequence of imperial conquest and a mobility revolution, Russia became a crossroads of the hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. The first book in any language on the hajj under tsarist and Soviet rule, Russian Hajj tells the story of how tsarist officials struggled to control and co-opt Russia's mass hajj traffic, seeing it not on...(展开全部)

With the advent of the steamship, repeated outbreaks of cholera marked oceanic pilgrimages to Mecca as a dangerous form of travel and a vehicle for the globalization of epidemic diseases. European, especially British Indian, officials also feared that lengthy sojourns in Arabia might expose their Muslim subjects to radicalizing influences from anticolonial dissidents and pan-Is...(展开全部)

With the advent of the steamship, repeated outbreaks of cholera marked oceanic pilgrimages to Mecca as a dangerous form of travel and a vehicle for the globalization of epidemic diseases. European, especially British Indian, officials also feared that lengthy sojourns in Arabia might expose their Muslim subjects to radicalizing influences from anticolonial dissidents and pan-Is...(展开全部)

How does one empire differ from another? Why do empires rise and fall? What has made empires flourish in some eras and regions of the world but not in others? In this broad and ambitious book, Dominic Lieven explores the place and meaning of empire from ancient Rome to the present. The central focus of the book is Russia and the rise and fall of the Tsarist and the Soviet Empir...(展开全部)

How does one empire differ from another? Why do empires rise and fall? What has made empires flourish in some eras and regions of the world but not in others? In this broad and ambitious book, Dominic Lieven explores the place and meaning of empire from ancient Rome to the present. The central focus of the book is Russia and the rise and fall of the Tsarist and the Soviet Empir...(展开全部)

This ambitious book explores the role of empire in world history. What does it mean to be an empire? How does one empire differ from another? Why does an empire rise and why fall? Why have empires flourished in some eras and regions of the world but not in others? On an unusally wide canvas, Dominic Lieven addresses all these questions. His central focus is on the rise and...(展开全部)

Dominic Lieven, a former Kennedy scholar at Harvard University, is professor of Russian government at the London School of Economics. Among his many publications are the highly praised Nicholas II and Russia’s Rulers under the Old Regime, published by Yale University Press.

作者出生在奥地利﹐是犹太人﹐原名Sylvius Leopold Weiss﹐1926年归信伊斯兰﹐改名为穆罕默德‧阿萨德。 他的祖上是犹太教的宗教世家﹐犹太教经典和希伯莱文是家庭教育传统﹐1920年他到巴勒斯坦研究犹太古代史，目睹了犹太复国运动﹐因此开始研究伊斯兰和阿拉伯文化﹐考察了周围许多伊斯兰国家﹐如土耳其﹑沙特阿拉伯﹑苏联的中亚﹐最后选择成为穆斯林﹐在印度定居﹐支持印度穆斯林独立建国运动。 巴基斯坦建国之后﹐他归为巴基斯坦公民﹐担任新建国家的外交工作﹐1947年被巴基斯坦政府委任为驻联合国大使。在他归信伊斯兰之后参加穆斯林解放运动时期﹐写了许多书﹐阐明伊斯兰的现代观点﹐如《通往麦加之路》《古兰经的启示》《布哈里伊玛目评述》《这就是我们的法则》和《伊斯兰在十字路口》《不浪漫的东方》等。

Book description Rishad Choudhury presents a new history of imperial connections across the Indian Ocean from 1739 to 1857, a period that witnessed the decline and collapse of Mughal rule and the consolidation of British colonialism in South Asia. In this highly original and comprehensive study, he reveals how the hajj pilgrimage significantly transformed Muslim political cultu...(展开全部)