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001 2010005409
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008 100218s2010 ilu b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780970819956 (hardcover : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
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050 00 $aDS248.M4$bM45 2010
082 00 $a953.8$222
100 1 $aMeloy, John Lash.
245 10 $aImperial power and maritime trade :$bMecca and Cairo in the later Middle Ages /$cJohn L. Meloy.
260 $aChicago, IL :$bPublished on behalf of Center for Middle Eastern Studies by Middle East Documentation Center,$c2010.
263 $a1003
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aChicago studies on the Middle East
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe rise of Mecca in the later Middle Ages : politics and historiography -- Legal 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, commerce, 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: Geneaological trees -- Appendix C: Maritime traffic between Jedda and Indian Ocean and Red Sea posts, 1471-1537.
651 0 $aMecca (Saudi Arabia)$xPolitics and government.
651 0 $aHejaz (Saudi Arabia)$xPolitics and government.
650 0 $aImperialism$xHistory$yTo 1500.
651 0 $aMecca (Saudi Arabia)$xCommerce$xHistory.
651 0 $aIndian Ocean$xCommerce$xHistory.
650 0 $aShipping$zSaudi Arabia$zMecca$xHistory$yTo 1500.
651 0 $aMecca (Saudi Arabia)$xEconomic conditions.
651 0 $aMecca (Saudi Arabia)$xRelations$zEgypt$zCairo.
651 0 $aCairo (Egypt)$xRelations$zSaudi Arabia$zMecca.
650 0 $aMamelukes$xHistory.
710 2 $aUniversity of Chicago.$bCenter for Middle Eastern Studies.