title: The Russian Empire as a Regulator of the Hajj and Russian Orthodox Pilgrimage
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metadata.value: Anisimov, Oleg V.
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metadata.value: 2023-06-29T11:54:00Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-06-29T11:54:00Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-06
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metadata.value: Anisimov O. V. The Russian Empire as a Regulator of the Hajj and Russian Orthodox Pilgrimage. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2023, vol. 68, issue 2, рp. 549–556. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2023.215
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2023.215
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/41710
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metadata.value: The work by Eileen Kane on the Russian Empire’s experience of regulating the hajj — the Muslim
  pilgrimage from the Volga region, the Caucasus, and Central Asia to the Middle East — is
  of interest not only from the perspective of Asian and African studies or the history of religion.
  It is also, potentially, a comparative study as the author illustrates her observations and conclusions
  by referring to Russia’s policies towards the Christian populations of the Arab provinces
  of the Ottoman Empire. E. Kane advances a debatable thesis that Russia provided unofficial
  support for the hajj undertaken by its subjects. Whereas the patronage of Russian Orthodox
  pilgrimage was fully in line with Russia’s geopolitical role in the Middle East as well as with
  the tsarist ideology, open declaration of its interest in an organized hajj was out of the question
  for the Russian government. The idea of regulating the hajj was consistent with Russia’s
  need to integrate its Muslim subjects into the empire in order to secure the imperial rule. In
  the Ottoman Empire, adherents of various religions united under one dynasty and entitled to
  its consular protection can be viewed from the perspective of comparative historical research
  and the authorities’ general idea of imperial unity. In this case, the modes of comparison can
  be the following: the appropriation by the authorities of the traditions of pilgrimage and the
  hajj; their modernization; controversies in implementing the policies; consular protection;
  the subjugation of the clergy to the imperial bureaucracy. The profound differences between
  the two religious cultures, Christianity and Islam, resulted in the differences between Russia’s
  Muslim and Orthodox presence in the Middle East. In the late 19th century, Orthodox subjects
  of the tsar upon arriving at the destination of their pilgrimage, were offered the services
  of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society: they could use the accommodation owned by the “Russian Palestine”, and were provided with spiritual guidance by the Russian Orthodox
  ecclesiastical mission in Jerusalem. Muslim subjects of the tsar did not enjoy the same level of
  official protection.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 68; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian Empire
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Islam
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: pilgrimage
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: hajj
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Eastern Orthodox Christianity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ottoman Empire
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Central Asia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Russian Empire as a Regulator of the Hajj and Russian Orthodox Pilgrimage
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metadata.value: Article
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