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.
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