History of Jeddah - The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Seen from the perspective of its diverse population, this first biography of Jeddah traces the city's urban history and cosmopolitanism from the late Ottoman period to its present-day claim to multiculturalism, within the conservative environment of the Arabian Peninsula.

List of contents

1. Introduction: why Jeddah?; 2. Between sea and land: Jeddah through the ages; 3. The changing faces of Jeddah; 4. The changing urban space of Jeddah; 5. Solidarity and competition: the socio-cultural foundations of life in Jeddah; 6. The economic lifelines of Jeddah: trade and pilgrimage; 7. Governing and regulating diversity: urban government in Jeddah; 8. The disappearance and return of old Jeddah: on the temporality of translocal relations.

About the author

Ulrike Freitag is Director of Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient and Professor of Islamic Studies at Freie Universität, Berlin. She is author of Indian Ocean Migrants and State Formation in Hadhramaut (2002) and co-editor of several volumes on urban history, including Urban Violence in the Middle East (2015).

Summary

Seen from the perspective of its diverse population, this first biography of Jeddah traces the city's urban history and cosmopolitanism from the late Ottoman period to its present-day claim to multiculturalism, within the conservative environment of the Arabian Peninsula.

Product details

• Authors: Ulrike Freitag, Freitag Ulrike
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.11.2022
• EAN: 9781108746205
• ISBN: 978-1-108-74620-5
• No. of pages: 407
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Middle East / General, 20th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Middle Eastern history, Arabian Peninsula