TY  - BOOK
AU  - Can,Lâle
TI  - Spiritual subjects: Central Asian pilgrims and the Ottoman hajj at the end of empire 
SN  - 9781503611177
AV  - BP187.3 .C36 2020eb
U1  - 297.3/52409034 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages
KW  - Saudi Arabia
KW  - Mecca
KW  - History
KW  - Asia, Central
KW  - Central Asians
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Panislamism
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Panislamisme
KW  - Aspect politique
KW  - Histoire
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Turkey & Ottoman Empire
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
KW  - Empire ottoman
KW  - Central Asia
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Rewriting the road to Mecca -- Sufi lodges as sites of transimperial connection -- Extraterritoriality and the question of protection -- Petitioning the Sultan -- From pilgrims to migrants and de facto Ottomans
N2  - At the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of Central Asians made the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. Traveling long distances, many lived for extended periods in Ottoman cities dotting the routes. Though technically foreigners, these Muslim colonial subjects often blurred the lines between pilgrims and migrants. Not quite Ottoman, and not quite foreign, Central Asians became the sultan's spiritual subjects. Their status was continually negotiated by Ottoman statesmen as attempts to exclude foreign Muslim nationals from the body politic were compromised by a changing international legal order and the caliphate's ecumenical claims. Spiritual Subjects examines the paradoxes of nationality reform and pan-Islamic politics in late Ottoman history. Lâle Can unravels how imperial belonging was wrapped up in deeply symbolic instantiations of religion, as well as prosaic acts and experiences that paved the way to integration into Ottoman communities. A complex system of belonging emerged--one where it was possible for a Muslim to be both, by law, a foreigner and a subject of the Ottoman sultan-caliph. This panoramic story informs broader transregional and global developments, with important implications for how we make sense of subjecthood in the last Muslim empire and the legacy of religion in the Turkish Republic
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