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A History of Jeddah

The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
407 Seiten
Englisch
Cambridge University Presserschienen am10.11.2022
Known as the 'Gate to Mecca' or 'Bride of the Red Sea', Jeddah has been a gateway for pilgrims travelling to Mecca and Medina and a station for international trade routes between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean for 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. Contextualising Jeddah with developments in the wider Muslim world, Ulrike Freitag investigates how different groups of migrants interacted in a changing urban space and how their economic activities influenced the political framework of the city. Richly illustrated, this study reveals how the transformation of Jeddah's urban space, population and politics has been indicative of changes in the wider Arab and Red Sea region, re-evaluating its place in the Middle East at a time when both its cosmopolitan practices and old city are changing dramatically against a backdrop of modernisation and Saudi nation-building.mehr
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KlappentextKnown as the 'Gate to Mecca' or 'Bride of the Red Sea', Jeddah has been a gateway for pilgrims travelling to Mecca and Medina and a station for international trade routes between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean for 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. Contextualising Jeddah with developments in the wider Muslim world, Ulrike Freitag investigates how different groups of migrants interacted in a changing urban space and how their economic activities influenced the political framework of the city. Richly illustrated, this study reveals how the transformation of Jeddah's urban space, population and politics has been indicative of changes in the wider Arab and Red Sea region, re-evaluating its place in the Middle East at a time when both its cosmopolitan practices and old city are changing dramatically against a backdrop of modernisation and Saudi nation-building.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-108-74620-5
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
FormatTrade Paperback (USA)
Erscheinungsjahr2022
Erscheinungsdatum10.11.2022
Seiten407 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 152 mm, Höhe 229 mm, Dicke 21 mm
Gewicht544 g
Artikel-Nr.9917768
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GenreGeschichte/Politik

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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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.mehr

Autor

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).