John L Meloy

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Imperial Power and Maritime Trade: Mecca and Cairo in the Later Middle Ages (With a New Preface)Paperback - With a New Preface, 15 October 2015

Imperial Power and Maritime Trade: Mecca and Cairo in the Later Middle Ages (With a New Preface)
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Part of Series
Chicago Studies on the Middle East
Print Length
324 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Middle East Documentation Center
Date Published
15 Oct 2015
ISBN-10
099157320X
ISBN-13
9780991573202

Description

This Revised Edition includes a new preface. When scholars of Middle Eastern and Islamic history consider Mecca or its region, the Hijaz, they tend to focus on either the first century of Islam, when the city and region became briefly the center of an incipient empire, or the twentieth, when the city was the center of the Arab Revolt. More than a thousand years of history in between are relatively unknown. The pre-modern imperial cities of Damascus, Baghdad, and Cairo quickly superseded Mecca as centers of politics and long-distance trade, leaving Islams premier holy city with its singular role as the destination of the great pilgrimage. Of course, the religious significance of Mecca attracted the attention of neighboring rulers, such as the Mamluk sultans of Cairo, who claimed sovereignty over the city to enhance their reputations as paramount Muslim rulers in the later medieval period. Since these claims were written into the Mamluk historical record, the principal means of viewing late medieval Mecca, the standard conception of the citys history has been skewed by its role as the ritual center of Islam and dominated by its relationship with Cairo. Yet when one considers that Mecca and its port of Jedda lay midway between the vital trading networks of the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean, one finds cause to question the received view of the Holy City. 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 by examining their relations with local and global forces: their alliances with local groups in the Hijaz, their relations with the imperial center of Mamluk Cairo, and their reliance on the maritime trade of the Indian Ocean.

Product Details

Author:
John L Meloy
Book Edition:
With a New Preface
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
15 October 2015
Dimensions:
22.86 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm
ISBN-10:
099157320X
ISBN-13:
9780991573202
Language:
English
Location:
Chicago
Pages:
324
Weight:
521.63 gm

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