“I Have To Disguise Myself”: Orientalism, Gyula Germanus, and pilgrimage as cultural capital, 1935–1965
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The present volume focuses on the political perceptions of the Hajj, its global religious
appeal to Muslims, and the European struggle for influence and supremacy in the Muslim
world in the age of pre-colonial and colonial empires.
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Adam Mestyan
Assistant Professor of History
Adam Mestyan is on sabbatical leave until January 2022.
Adam Mestyan is a historian of the modern Arab world. Using the approach of global
legal history, he is working on a new monograph Modern Arab Kingship (under contract),
a social history of constituting Arab political orders in the interwar period. His
next project is a history of land administration (taxation, agrarian shari‘a, and
the land survey) in modern Syria and Egypt. He is the aut
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