Description
Book SynopsisThis new paperback is a Revised Edition with new preface. Using sources composed by late medieval Meccan scholars alongside the more well-known Mamluk material, this study presents the history of late medieval Mecca and the Sharifs who ruled the city.
Trade Review
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Map 1: The Red Sea and the Western Indian Ocean
Map 2: The Central Hijaz
Preface to the Revised Edition
Introduction
The Rise of Mecca in the Later Middle Ages: Politics and Historiography
Local 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: Genealogical Charts of the Shar?fs,7th–10th/13th–16th c.
Appendix C: Maritime Traffic between Jedda and Indian Ocean and Red Sea Ports, 876–944/1471–1537
Bibliography
Index
