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The Way to Mecca. Spanish State Sponsorship of Muslim Pilgrimage (1925-1972)

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    Identifier: imarina:9161957
    Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/imarina9161957
  • Authors:

    Moreras, Jordi
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    Author, as appears in the article.: Moreras, Jordi;
    Department: Antropologia, Filosofia i Treball Social
    URV's Author/s: Moreras Palenzuela, Jordi
    Keywords: Spanish protectorate Pilgrimage to mecca Morocco Islam Control of rituals
    Abstract: The sponsorship of pilgrimage to Mecca by European colonial powers in the 19th and 20th centuries contributed to transforming the hajj into the global phenomenon it is today. Spain also promoted Muslim pilgrimage from its zone of the Moroccan Protectorate, tentatively at first, and then more purposefully from 1937 onwards, continuing its sponsorship into the early 1970s, years after Morocco's independence. Intensive study of administrative documentation from the Spanish Protectorate allows the reformulation of the sponsorship's established chronology (from 1937 to 1956). It also shows the dual intent concealed behind its promotion: first, as propaganda aimed at the interior of the Moroccan territory being administered; and second, as a tool for the external promotion of a political regime in need of support to escape its international isolation. The pilgrimage's sponsorship is seen as part of the general framework of managing Muslim rituals enacted by the Spanish government to deactivate their potential mobilising capacity.
    Thematic Areas: Interdisciplinary research in the humanities History Historia general y especializada Historia Cultural studies Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas
    licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    ISSN: 2253-797X
    Author's mail: jordi.moreras@urv.cat
    Author identifier: 0000-0002-8557-821X
    Record's date: 2023-02-19
    Journal volume: 9
    Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Link to the original source: https://cultureandhistory.revistas.csic.es/index.php/cultureandhistory/article/view/187
    Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Papper original source: Culture And History Digital Journal. 9 (2):
    APA: Moreras, Jordi; (2020). The Way to Mecca. Spanish State Sponsorship of Muslim Pilgrimage (1925-1972). Culture And History Digital Journal, 9(2), -. DOI: 10.3989/chdj.2020.013
    Article's DOI: 10.3989/chdj.2020.013
    Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Journal publication year: 2020
    Publication Type: Journal Publications
  • Keywords:

    Cultural Studies,History
    Spanish protectorate
    Pilgrimage to mecca
    Morocco
    Islam
    Control of rituals
    Interdisciplinary research in the humanities
    History
    Historia general y especializada
    Historia
    Cultural studies
    Ciencias sociales
    Ciencias humanas
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