Imperial Power and Maritime Trade: Mecca and Cairo in the Later Middle Ages

Abstract

Acknowledgements Map 1: The Red Sea and the Western Indian Ocean Map 2: The Central Hijaz 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, 797-824/1396-1421 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 Sharifs, 7th-10th/13th-16th c. Appendix C: Maritime Traffic between Jedda and Indian Ocean and Red Sea Ports, 876-944/1471-1537 Bibliography Index

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