Russian Hajj: Empire & the Pilgrimage to Mecca…

This week, there will be a book talk on the history of the Russian hajj at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute — one of the world’s leading academic institutions devoted to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies. I received my Masters in Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies from the Harriman Institute (which helped me get in touch with my Slavic roots and deepen my research on Islam in Central Asia), so I’m very happy to see that they are offering this book talk as part of their Harriman at 70 Lecture Series.

Book Talk at Columbia University
Russian Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca, by Eileen Kane
Monday, December 5, 2016, 12:00 pm
Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room (1219 International Affairs Building)

Eileen Kane teaches modern European and Russian history at Connecticut College. Her first book, Russian Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca (Cornell, 2015) tells the story of how Russia, a Christian power, came to sponsor the hajj, a central Muslim ritual. Her current research looks at Russia’s role in the making of the modern Middle East, through a focus on migration.