CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Rojik, Ulzhan |
|---|---|
| Title | Muslims of the Russian Empire and Hajj Bureaucracy in the Official Reports and the Hajjnames of Volga-Ural Muslims at the Turn of the Twentieth Century |
| Summary | This thesis examines Hajj pilgrimage of Muslims of the Russian Empire, as well as the bureaucracy pilgrims, had to face on the way to Mecca at the turn of the twentieth century. Every attempt of the tsarist officials to systematize and organize the Hajj made it in fact more complicated. By decreasing the number of passports for Muslims heading to the Hajj, constructing hubs where pilgrims were obliged to stay, requiring them to buy tickets for steamships of particular companies, and by sometimes banning the pilgrimage all together, the imperial bureaucracy faced ever-increasing difficulties to control the Hajj. All these measures were meant to establish state patronage over the Hajj. However, these policies often complicated the journey rather than facilitating it. The hajjname of Gali Chokryi, for example, reveals another important aspect related to Hajj, that a Sufi Muslim of the Volga-Ural region demonstrated his loyalty to the tsar by praising the developments of the Russian Empire. The core analysis presented in this thesis juxtaposes the official reports commissioned by the state or written by state officials with the non-state perspective as given in the hajjnames, in particular, that of Gali Chokryi, which serves as a valuable source for understanding the Hajj bureaucracy. |
| Supervisor | Hennings, Jan |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/rojik_ulzhan.pdf |
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