Imperial power and maritime trade
Subtitle: Mecca and Cairo in the later Middle Ages
By: John L. Meloy.
Contributors: University of Chicago. Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
Series: Chicago studies on the Middle East
Publisher: Published on behalf of Center for Middle Eastern Studies by Middle East Documentation Center; Middle East Documentation Center; Brand: Middle East Documentation Center
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780970819956
Subjects: Imperialism -- History -- To 1500; Shipping -- Saudi Arabia -- Mecca -- History -- To 1500; Mamelukes -- History; Mecca (Saudi Arabia) -- Politics and government; Hejaz (Saudi Arabia) -- Politics and government; Mecca (Saudi Arabia) -- Commerce -- History; Indian Ocean -- Commerce -- History; Mecca (Saudi Arabia) -- Economic conditions; Mecca (Saudi Arabia) -- Relations -- Egypt -- Cairo; Cairo (Egypt) -- Relations -- Saudi Arabia -- Mecca
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The rise of Mecca in the later Middle Ages : politics and historiography; title: Legal contexts of maritime trade in Mecca; title: Brokering power in Mecca : Mamluk seasonal domination and the rule of the sharifs, 797-824/1395-1421; title: Mamluk expansion and Meccan resistance, 824-41/1421-38; title: Forging mutual interests, 841-67/1438-63; title: Mecca as sultanate : foundations of economic power, 867-903/1463-97; title: Politics, commerce, and the new dispensations in Mecca, 903-23/1497-1517; title: Conclusion: Mecca's loss of splendid isolation; title: Appendix A: Comparative political periodization of the Mamluk Sultanate and the Meccan Sharifate and Amirate, 797-931/1395-1525; title: Appendix B: Geneaological trees; title: Appendix C: Maritime traffic between Jedda and Indian Ocean and Red Sea posts, 1471-1537.