Franco's North African pilgrims after WWII : The Hajj through the Eyes of a Spanish colonial officer (1949)
Mateo Dieste, Josep Lluís (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Ryad, Umar, ed.

Data:	2016
Descripció:	24 pàg.
Resum:	In this chapter I will analyse a report written by a Spanish colonial officer who described a Hajj trip by air from Morocco, when he was accompanying and supervising a group of Moroccan notables in 1949. The document, narrated in the first person, is different from other colonial sources of the same period, which were more official and technical. The flight took three days after its departure from Tétouan by stopping at Nador, Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, Benghazi, Alexandria, Luxor, and finally Jeddah. By giving a particular and informal per- spective, the officer gathered the impressions of the pilgrims, mainly Tétouani notables, their contacts with local populations at the stops on the journey, his own feelings of disorientation in Jeddah, and many other problems related to passports and borders. The Spanish officer's report shows how he and Moroccan notables had encountered similar problems, especially that the Moroccan delegation could not communicate well in the Mashriq Arabic dialects, and that they discovered other customs and traditions that were not common in the Maghrib. By analysing the report, we situate the question of the Hajj in the political realms of Franco's Spain, the Spanish colonial views of the Hajj, as well as this colonial officer's perceptions of the social agency of the Moroccan notables during their religious rituals of the Hajj after WWII.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Capítol de llibre ; recerca ; Versió publicada
ISBN:	978-9-00-432334-6
Publicat a:	The Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire, Vol. 5 Núm. 1 (2016) , p. 240-264, ISSN 2210-8920

DOI: 10.1163/9789004323353_011

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