TY - BOOK ID - 85498131 TI - A history of Jeddah : the gate to Mecca in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries PY - 2020 SN - 1108778836 1108802397 1108788947 1108478794 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Sociology, Urban KW - Local government KW - Local administration KW - Township government KW - Subnational governments KW - Administrative and political divisions KW - Decentralization in government KW - Public administration KW - Urban sociology KW - Cities and towns KW - Jiddah (Saudi Arabia) KW - Jedda (Saudi Arabia) KW - Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) KW - Djuddah (Saudi Arabia) KW - Djeddah (Saudi Arabia) KW - Judda (Saudi Arabia) KW - Juddah (Saudi Arabia) KW - Jidda (Saudi Arabia) KW - Jaddah (Saudi Arabia) KW - Djidda (Saudi Arabia) KW - Guddat (Saudi Arabia) KW - Jiddah (Hejaz (Kingdom) KW - جدة (Saudi Arabia) KW - History KW - Social conditions KW - Economic conditions KW - Emigration and immigration. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85498131 AB - 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. ER -