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.

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通往麦加之路。西班牙国家赞助穆斯林朝圣（1925-1972）

19 世纪和 20 世纪欧洲殖民列强赞助麦加朝圣有助于将朝觐转变为当今的全球现象。西班牙还从其摩洛哥保护国地区推广穆斯林朝圣，起初是试探性的，然后从 1937 年开始更有目的性，在摩洛哥独立多年后继续赞助到 1970 年代初。对西班牙保护国行政文件的深入研究允许重新制定赞助的既定年表（从 1937 年到 1956 年）。它还显示了其宣传背后隐藏的双重意图：首先，作为针对被管理的摩洛哥领土内部的宣传；第二，作为外部促进需要支持以摆脱其国际孤立的政治政权的工具。