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

ISBN-13: 9781108746205 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 407 str.

Ulrike Freitag

Opis

An urban history of Jeddah from the late Ottoman period to the present day, seen through its diverse and changing population.

Recenzje

'Ulrike Freitag has given us a book that is as erudite and well-founded as it is interesting, even exciting, and which deserves to be disseminated beyond professional circles.' Alfred Schlicht, Orientalistische Literaturzeitung

Spis treści

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.