John Slight
Biographic Data
| ID | 5653667 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Slight |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Slight |
| SIGNATURE | SLIGHT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hajj Travelogues
Journey in the Grand Sahara of Africa
Michael Christopher Low, Imperial Mecca
Reviewed by: Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj by Michael Christopher Low John Slight Michael Christopher Low. Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. xx + 392 pp. Paper, $35.00. ISBN: 9780231190770. This excellent work is an important landmark publication in both Ottoman and Indian Ocean studies. Low has painstakingly mined the Ottoman archives, alongside extensi…
Xu Guoqi. Asia and the Great War
Xu Guoqi has a distinguished reputation as one of the leading scholars of China’s involvement in the First World War, cemented through his two excellent books China and the Great War: China’s Pursuit of a New National Identity and Internationalization (2005) and Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Workers in the Great War (2011). Xu is a prominent scholar in the globalization of the First World War’s historiography, a development that has bee…
The Ahmadiyya in the Gold Coast
The Ahmadiyya in the Gold Coast: Muslim Cosmopolitans in the British Empire." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 42(1), pp. 216–217
Global War and its impact on the Gulf States of Kuwait and Bahrain, 1914–1918
This article provides the first detailed analysis of the Gulf States of Kuwait and Bahrain during the First World War. It argues that the war had a disruptive effect on these states’ politics, societies, economies and trans-regional networks. As well as writing the wartime experiences of Kuwait and Bahrain into the conflict’s global history, it aids our understanding of the effects of world-wide conflict on states which are not major belligerent …
British Understandings of the Sanussiyya Sufi Order’s Jihad against Egypt, 1915–17
This article considers the Sanussiyya Sufi order's 1915–16 jihad on Egypt from a fresh perspective, analysing British understandings about the attack that soldiers and officials fashioned as the conflict progressed. By incorporating aspects of imperial and Islamic history and a focus on British perceptions, the article presents new directions in the study of the war in the Middle East that move beyond the concerns of older military histories. It …
British Perceptions and Responses to Sultan Ali Dinar of Darfur, 1915–16
This article illustrates how British perceptions of Sultan Ali Dinar of Darfur, in the context of the First World War, led to the downfall of his sultanate in 1916. It shows how the paranoia of the ‘imperial mind’ amplified the threat of militant Islam, personified by Ali Dinar, through the conviction that he was involved with outside enemy forces. British certainty of Ottoman and German complicity in the sultan's belligerence was presented with …
Global War and its impact on the Gulf States of Kuwait and Bahrain, 1914–1918
This article provides the first detailed analysis of the Gulf States of Kuwait and Bahrain during the First World War. It argues that the war had a disruptive effect on these states’ politics, societies, economies and trans-regional networks. As well as writing the wartime experiences of Kuwait and Bahrain into the conflict’s global history, it aids our understanding of the effects of world-wide conflict on states which are not major belligerent …
British Understandings of the Sanussiyya Sufi Order’s Jihad against Egypt, 1915–17
This article considers the Sanussiyya Sufi order's 1915–16 jihad on Egypt from a fresh perspective, analysing British understandings about the attack that soldiers and officials fashioned as the conflict progressed. By incorporating aspects of imperial and Islamic history and a focus on British perceptions, the article presents new directions in the study of the war in the Middle East that move beyond the concerns of older military histories. It …
British Perceptions and Responses to Sultan Ali Dinar of Darfur, 1915–16
This article illustrates how British perceptions of Sultan Ali Dinar of Darfur, in the context of the First World War, led to the downfall of his sultanate in 1916. It shows how the paranoia of the ‘imperial mind’ amplified the threat of militant Islam, personified by Ali Dinar, through the conviction that he was involved with outside enemy forces. British certainty of Ottoman and German complicity in the sultan's belligerence was presented with …
British Perceptions and Responses to Sultan Ali Dinar of Darfur, 1915–16
This article illustrates how British perceptions of Sultan Ali Dinar of Darfur, in the context of the First World War, led to the downfall of his sultanate in 1916. It shows how the paranoia of the ‘imperial mind’ amplified the threat of militant Islam, personified by Ali Dinar, through the conviction that he was involved with outside enemy forces. British certainty of Ottoman and German complicity in the sultan's belligerence was presented with …
British Understandings of the Sanussiyya Sufi Order’s Jihad against Egypt, 1915–17
This article considers the Sanussiyya Sufi order's 1915–16 jihad on Egypt from a fresh perspective, analysing British understandings about the attack that soldiers and officials fashioned as the conflict progressed. By incorporating aspects of imperial and Islamic history and a focus on British perceptions, the article presents new directions in the study of the war in the Middle East that move beyond the concerns of older military histories. It …
Global War and its impact on the Gulf States of Kuwait and Bahrain, 1914–1918
This article provides the first detailed analysis of the Gulf States of Kuwait and Bahrain during the First World War. It argues that the war had a disruptive effect on these states’ politics, societies, economies and trans-regional networks. As well as writing the wartime experiences of Kuwait and Bahrain into the conflict’s global history, it aids our understanding of the effects of world-wide conflict on states which are not major belligerent …
The Ahmadiyya in the Gold Coast
The Ahmadiyya in the Gold Coast: Muslim Cosmopolitans in the British Empire." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 42(1), pp. 216–217
Xu Guoqi. Asia and the Great War
Xu Guoqi has a distinguished reputation as one of the leading scholars of China’s involvement in the First World War, cemented through his two excellent books China and the Great War: China’s Pursuit of a New National Identity and Internationalization (2005) and Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Workers in the Great War (2011). Xu is a prominent scholar in the globalization of the First World War’s historiography, a development that has bee…
Michael Christopher Low, Imperial Mecca
Reviewed by: Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj by Michael Christopher Low John Slight Michael Christopher Low. Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. xx + 392 pp. Paper, $35.00. ISBN: 9780231190770. This excellent work is an important landmark publication in both Ottoman and Indian Ocean studies. Low has painstakingly mined the Ottoman archives, alongside extensi…
Journey in the Grand Sahara of Africa
Hajj Travelogues
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