⁵⁷ For example, Dionisius A. Agius, ‘The Rashayda: Ethnic identity and Dhow activity in Suakin on the Red Sea coast’, Northeast African Studies, 12 (2012): 169-216; Agius, John P. Cooper, Lucy Semaan, Chiara Zazzaro and Robert Carter, ‘Remembering the sea: Personal and communal recollections of maritime life in Jizan and the Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia’, Journal of Maritime Archaeology, 11 (2016): 127-77; Agius, The life of the Red Sea dhow: A cultural history of Islamic seaborne exploration (London, 2018).

⁵⁸ Madawi al-Rasheed, A most masculine state: Gender, politics and religion in Saudi Arabia (New York, 2013), pp. 187-88.

⁵⁹ Miran, Red Sea citizens, pp. 23, 289, n. 55. pertinent themes: Paul Lunde and Alexandra Porter, eds., Trade and travel in the Red Sea region (Oxford, 2004); Janet C. M. Starkey, ed., People of the Red Sea (Oxford, 2005); Janet C. M. Starkey, Paul Starkey and T. J. Wilkinson, eds., Natural resources and cultural connections of the Red Sea (Oxford, 2007); Lucy Blue, John Cooper, Ross Thomas and Julian Whitewright, eds., Connected hinterlands (Oxford, 2009); Dionisius A. Agius, John P. Cooper, Athena Trakadas and Chiara Zazzaro, eds., Navigated spaces, connected places (Oxford, 2012); and Dionisius A. Agius, Emad Khalil, Eleanor Scerri and Alun Williams, eds., Human interaction with the environment in the Red Sea: Selected papers of Red Sea Project VI (Leiden, 2017).

An effort to promote the study of the Red Sea region as an integrated space is Jonathan Miran, ‘Space and mobility in the Red Sea region, 1500-1950’, History Compass, 12, 2 (February 2014): 197-216; see also Jonathan Miran, ed., ‘Special issue: Space, mobility and translocal connections across the Red Sea Area since 1500’, Northeast African Studies, 12 (2012): ix-307. For Roman Berenike and its local, regional and global connections, see Steven E. Sidebotham, Berenike and the ancient maritime spice route (Berkeley, CA, 2011). On Christians, Jews and inter-imperial contestations in the southern Red Sea region in Late Antiquity, see G. W. Bowersock, The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea wars on the eve of Islam (Oxford, 2013). For an integrated approach to the Red Sea in the early Islamic centuries, see Timothy Power, The Red Sea from Byzantium to the Caliphate AD 500-1000 (New York, 2012). The history of Aden and its commercial connections between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries is detailed in Roxani Eleni Margariti, Aden and the Indian Ocean trade: 150 years in the life of a medieval Arabian port (Chapel Hill, NC, 2007). On the operation of a family shipping business in late Ayyubid and early Mamluk Qusayr, see Li Guo, Commerce, culture and community in a Red Sea port in the thirteenth century: Arabic documents form Quseir (Leiden, 2004). For a massive study of Rasulid Yemen, the Red Sea and the western Indian Ocean, see Eric Vallet, LArabie marchande. Etat et commerce sous les sultans rasulides du Yemen (626-858 / 1229-1454) (Paris, 2011). The relationship between the Sharifate of Mecca and Mamluk Egypt is the subject of John L. Meloy, Imperial power and maritime trade: Mecca and Cairo in the later Middle Ages (Chicago, IL, 2010). On the Ottoman empire and the Red Sea, see Salih Ozbaran, ‘Ottoman expansion in the Red Sea’, in S. Faroqhi and K. Fleet, eds., The Cambridge history of Turkey, Vol. 2. The Ottoman Empire as a world power 1453-1603 (Cambridge, 2013), pp.

173-201 and Alexis Wick, The Red Sea: In search of lost space (Oakland, CA, 2016). For the commercial history of the early modern Red Sea, see Michel Tuchscherer, ‘Trade and port cities in the Red Sea-Gulf of Aden region in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries’, in L. T. Fawaz and C. A. Bayly, eds., Modernity and culture from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean (New York, 2002), pp. 28-45; Michel Tuchscherer, ‘Le commerce en mer Rouge aux alentours de 1700: flux, espaces et temps’, in R. Gyselen, ed., Circulation des monnaies, des merchandises et des biens, Vol. V (Bures-sur-Yvette, 1993), pp. 159-78. On the history of coffee, see Michel Tuchscherer, ‘Coffee in the Red Sea area from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century’, in W. G. Clarence-Smith and S. Topik, eds., The global coffee economy in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, 1500-1989 (Cambridge, 2003), pp. 50-66. On the urban history of the port of Mocha and its wider connections, see Nancy Um, The merchant houses of Mocha: Trade and architecture in an Indian Ocean port (Seattle, WA, 2009) and C. G. Brouwer, Al-Mukha: Profile of a Yemeni seaport as sketched by servants of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), 1614-1640 (Amsterdam, 1997) and its two sequels on the seventeenth-century commerce of this port published in 2006 and 2010. The nineteenth-century transport revolution and its impact on the Red Sea is the subject of Colette Dubois, ‘The Red Sea ports during the revolution in transportation, 1800-1914’, in Fawaz and Bayly, eds., Modernity and culture from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, pp. 58-74. The opening of the Suez Canal and its implications is analysed in Valeska Huber, Channelling mobilities: Migration and globalisation in the Suez Canal region and beyond, 1869-1914 (Cambridge, 2013). A social history of the port of Massawa in the second half of the nineteenth century is Jonathan Miran, Red Sea citizens: Cosmopolitan society and cultural change in Massawa (Bloomington, IN, 2009). On Hadrami merchants and entrepreneurs in the Red Sea region, see Janet Ewald and William Gervase Clarence-Smith, ‘The economic role of the Hadhrami diaspora in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, 1820s to 1930s’, in U. Freitag and W. G. Clarence-Smith, eds., Hadhrami traders, scholars, and statesmen in the Indian Ocean, 1750s-1960s (Leiden, 1997), pp. 281-96 and Philippe Petriat, Le negoce des lieux saints. Negotiants hadramis de Djedda, 1850-1950 (Paris, 2016).

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Source: Armitage David, Bashford Alison et al. (eds.). Oceanic Histories. Cambridge University Press,2018. — 338 p.. 2018

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