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The Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire Leiden Studies in Islam and Society The Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire Leiden Studies in Islam and Society Editors Léon Buskens (Leiden University) Petra M. Sijpesteijn (Leiden University) Editorial Board Maurits Berger (Leiden University) – R. Michael Feener (Oxford University) – Nico Kaptein (Leiden University) Jan Michiel Otto (Leiden University) – David S. Powers (Cornell University) volume 5 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/lsis The Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire Edited by Umar Ryad leiden | boston This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the cc-by-nc License, which permits any non-commercial use, and distribution, provided no alterations are made and the original author(s) and source are credited. Cover illustration: Ansicht de Moschee, während darin ein gemeinschaftliches Çalät abgehalten wird. English translation: View of the mosque, while congregational Çalat [i.e., Salat] are being held inside. Photograph attributed to al-Sayyid ʿAbd al-Ghaffār, Physician of Mecca, by scholar Claude Sui. From Volume ii, page 88. Plate no. i in portfolio: Bilder aus Mekka, C. Snouck Hurgronje. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1889. lot 7088 [item] [p&p], Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, d.c. 20540 usa. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Ryad, Umar, editor. Title: The hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire / edited by Umar Ryad. Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017] | Series: Leiden studies in Islam and society ; V. 5 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: lccn 2016035042 (print) | lccn 2016036427 (ebook) | isbn 9789004323346 (pbk.) : alk. paper) | isbn 9789004323353 (e-book) Subjects: lcsh: Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages–Saudi Arabia–Mecca–History. | Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages–Europe. | Europe–Colonies–Administration. | Europe–Relations–Islamic countries. | Islamic countries–Relgions–Europe. | Europeans–Saudi Arabia–Mecca. Classification: lcc BP187.3 .H2434 2017 (print) | lcc BP187.3 (ebook) | ddc 297.3/52409–dc23 lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016035042 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface. issn 2210-8920 isbn 978-90-04-32334-6 (paperback) isbn 978-90-04-32335-3 (e-book) Copyright 2017 by the Editor and Authors. This work is published by Koninklijke Brill nv. Koninklijke Brill nv incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi and Hotei Publishing. 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Contents Acknowledgements vii List of Illustrations viii Contributors ix Introduction: The Hajj and Europe in the Pre-Colonial and Colonial Age 1 1 “Killed the Pilgrims and Persecuted Them”: Portuguese Estado da India’s Encounters with the Hajj in the Sixteenth Century 14 Mahmood Kooria 2 “The Infidel Piloting the True Believer”: Thomas Cook and the Business of the Colonial Hajj 47 Michael Christopher Low 3 British Colonial Knowledge and the Hajj in the Age of Empire 81 John Slight 4 French Policy and the Hajj in Late-Nineteenth-Century Algeria: Governor Cambon’s Reform Attempts and Jules Gervais-Courtellemont’s Pilgrimage to Mecca 112 Aldo D’Agostini 5 Heinrich Freiherr von Maltzan’s “My Pilgrimage to Mecca”: A Critical Investigation 142 Ulrike Freitag 6 Polish Connections to the Hajj between Mystical Experience, Imaginary Travelogues, and Actual Reality 155 Bogusław R. Zagórski 7 On his Donkey to the Mountain of ʿArafāt: Dr. Van der Hoog and his Hajj Journey to Mecca 185 Umar Ryad vi contents 8 “I Have To Disguise Myself”: Orientalism, Gyula Germanus, and Pilgrimage as Cultural Capital, 1935–1965 217 Adam Mestyan 9 The Franco North African Pilgrims after wwii: The Hajj through the Eyes of a Spanish Colonial Officer (1949) 240 Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste Index 265 Acknowledgements My sincere gratitude is due to the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (lucis) and the King Abdul-Aziz Foundation in Riyadh for their funding of the conference “Europe and Hajj in the Age of Empires: Muslim Pilgrimage prior to the Influx of Muslim Migration in the West” (Leiden University, 13–14 May 2013). I would also like to express my special thanks to the European Research Council (erc) for supporting my erc Starting Grant Project “Neither visitors, nor colonial victims: Muslims in Interwar Europe and European Trans-cultural History” (Utrecht University, 2014–2019). The generous support of the erc has also made the publication of the present volume in Open Access possible. The Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (bgsmcs, Freie Universität Berlin) was also gracious in hosting me as a visiting researcher in the summer of 2016. I also thank the team members of the erc project— Soumia Middelburg-Ait-Hida, Mehdi Sajid, Sophie Spaan, Tolga Teker, and Andrei Tirtan—for their cooperation and fruitful input during the last two years to make our joint work successful. List of Illustrations 1.1 Facade of Jāmiʿ mosque, Ponnāni, established in the sixteenth century 29 2.1 John Mason Cook, c. 1890 54 2.2 Cook’s Oriental Travellers’ Gazette and Home and Foreign Advertiser, 1890 58 2.3 Thomas Cook Mecca Pilgrimage Ticket, 1886 65 4.1 Front page of Gervais-Courtellemont’s travelogue 131 5.1 Excerpt from von Maltzan’s diary 153 6.1 Risale-i Tatar-ı Leh, in Ottoman Turkish and in Polish 157 6.2 The mosque in Łowczyce (Western Belarus), homeland of Kontuś 160 6.3 The grave of Kontuś in the Muslim cemetery of Łowczyce 161 6.4 The cover page of the travel book by Ignacy Żagiell 169 6.5 Various Polish Translations of Islamic sources 172 6.6 Polish translations of Islamic sources 173 6.7 A Polish-Tatar handwritten prayer book from the 19th c. 175 6.8 The Mufti of Poland, Dr. Jakub Szynkiewicz (sitting, first from the right) with King ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (in the centre), Count Raczyński (on the left) and Saudi officials (standing) in Jeddah, May 1930 176 7.1 Pilgrims on board in Jeddah (taken from Van der Hoog’s book). Dutch captions read as follows: xviii. Pilgrims coming on board xix. The deck of a pilgim boat. 202 7.2 Van der Hoog on his donkey on the Mountain of ʿArafāt (taken from Van der Hoog’s book). Dutch caption reads: The author on his donkey at the plain of Arafah. 204 7.3 Van der Hoog’s piece of the Kiswah of Kaʿba (taken from Van der Hoog’s book). Dutch caption reads viii. A piece of the kiswah that the author received as a gift. 206 8.1 “The Pilgrim of Scholarship”: an official photo of Gyula Germanus (1939) 225 8.2 Gyula Germanus dressed as a sailor on the ship “Duna” (1939) 228 8.3 Kató Kajári, Ms. Germanus, in Mecca (1965) 236 8.4 Gyula Germanus during his last pilgrimage in Mecca (1965) 237 9.1 “Peregrinos del Protectorado español en Marruecos a bordo del Marqués de Comillas” (1937 or 1938) 245 9.2 Moroccan Pilgrims in 1949 251 Contributors Mahmood Kooria is a post-doctoral fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies and the African Studies Centre, Leiden. He completed his Ph.D. on the circulation of Islamic legal ideas and texts across the Indian Ocean and Eastern Mediter- ranean worlds at the Leiden University Institute for History. He earned his m.a. and M.Phil. in History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has co- edited a volume with Michael Pearson titled Malabar in the Indian Ocean: Cos- mopolitanism in a Maritime Historical Region (Oxford University Press, forth- coming). Michael Christopher Low is Assistant Professor of History at Iowa State University. He completed his Ph.D. at Columbia University (2015) and is currently finishing his first book project, tentatively titled The Mechanics of Mecca: The Ottoman Hijaz and the Indian Ocean Hajj. His research focuses on the Late Ottoman and modern Mid- dle Eastern period as well as on the Indian Ocean and environmental history. His most recent article, “Ottoman Infrastructures of the Saudi Hydro-State: The Technopolitics of Pilgrimage and Potable Water in the Hijaz,” Comparative Studies in Society and History (2015) received the American Society for Envi- ronmental History’s 2016 Alice Hamilton article prize. His research has been supported by the American Institute for Yemeni Studies, Columbia University’s Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life, the David L. Boren National Security Education Program, the Institute of Turkish Studies, and Koç Univer- sity’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations. John Slight is a Research Fellow in History at St. John’s College, University of Cambridge, where he completed his b.a., M.Phil. and Ph.D. His research interests include the Red Sea, its surrounding littorals and this area’s links with Britain since c. 1850, Arabia and the greater Middle East during the First World War, and the relationship between British imperialism and Islamic religious practices. He is the author of The British Empire and the Hajj, 1865–1956 (Harvard University Press, 2015). Aldo D’Agostini is a post-doctoral researcher at the IMAf (Intitut des Mondes Africains). He studied at the Sapienza University of Rome and received his Ph.D. from Aix- x contributors Marseille University. His main research focuses are on the history of French and Italian colonialism in Africa and the Mediterranean, European discourse on ‘pan-Islamism’ in the colonial age, and the entanglements between European Islam-policies and empire-building in the nineteenth century.
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