The longest journey : Southeast Asians and the pilgrimage to Mecca / Eric Tagliacozzo.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-346)

Deep structure, longue-duree: charting the hajj over the centuries. Ancient footsteps: Southeast Asia's earliest Muslim pilgrims -- Mecca's tidal pull: the Red Sea and its worlds -- Financing devotion: the economics of the pre-modern hajj -- Sultanate and crescent: religion and politics in the Indian Ocean -- Sailor, doctor, statesman, spy: the hajj through four colonial windows. In Conrad's wake: Lord Jim, the'Patna', and the hajj -- A medical mountain: health maintenance and disease control on the hajj -- The skeptic's eye: Snouck Hurgronje and the politics of pilgrimage -- The Jeddah consulates: colonial espionage in the Hejaz -- Making the hajj'modern': pilgrims, states, and memory. Regulating the flood: the hajj and the independent nation-state -- On the margins of Islam: hajjis from outside Southeast Asia's'Islamic arc' --'I was the guest of Allah': hajj memoirs and writings from Southeast Asia -- Remembering devotion: oral history and the pilgrimage.