Freitag, Ulrike. A History of Jeddah: The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Freitag, Ulrike. A History of Jeddah: The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Summary/Abstract: Review of: Freitag, Ulrike. A History of Jeddah: The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 407 Page. ISBN: 9781108746205. This paper reviews Ulrike Freitag's recent book, A History of Jeddah: The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (2020), is based on careful and competent historiographical scholarship. It provides a comprehensive and analytical account of Jeddah's history and fills a significant void in the literature on Ottoman and Middle Eastern urban history, history of the Hijaz, and of port cities. As such, if translated, this book would attract a much broader readership in Turkey as well.

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