Imperial power and maritime trade : Mecca and Cairo in the later Middle Ages /

Imperial power and maritime trade : Mecca and Cairo in the later Middle Ages /

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Main Author: Meloy, John Lash (Author)

Corporate Author: University of Chicago. Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Chicago, IL : Published by the Middle East Documentation Center on behalf of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago, 2010.

Series: Chicago studies on the Middle East.

Subjects:

Imperialism > History > To 1500.
Shipping > Saudi Arabia > Mecca > History > To 1500.
Hejaz (Saudi Arabia) > Politics and government.
Indian Ocean > Commerce > History.
Mecca (Saudi Arabia) > Commerce > History.
Mecca (Saudi Arabia) > Politics and government.

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Call Number: DS248 .M4 M45 2010

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Table of Contents:
  • The rise of Mecca in the later Middle Ages : politics and historiography
  • Legal contexts of maritime trade in Mecca
  • Brokering power in Mecca : Mamluk seasonal domination and the rule of the sharifs, 797-824/1395-1421
  • Mamluk expansion and Meccan resistance, 824-41/1421-38
  • Forging mutual interests, 841-67/1438-63
  • Mecca as sultanate : foundations of economic power, 867-903/1463-97
  • Politics, trade, and the new dispensations in Mecca, 903-23/1497-1517
  • Conclusion: Mecca's loss of splendid isolation
  • Appendix A: Comparative political periodization of the Mamluk Sultanate and the Meccan Sharifate and Amirate, 797-931/1395-1525
  • Appendix B: Geneaological charts of the sharifs, 7th-10th/13th-16th c.
  • Appendix C: Maritime traffic between Jedda and Indian Ocean and Red Sea ports, 876-944/1471-1537.