Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1986. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 158-166).

Thesis (mājistīr)--Jāmiʻat al-Imām Muḥammad ibn Saʻūd al-Islāmīyah, Riyad, 1985. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-379).

This thesis is an attempt to put together the history of Al-Hijaz, and to present a description of the political situation during the period from the year 1520 through the year 1632. The period starts three years after the submission of Sharif Barakat II of Mecca to the new Islamic power, the Ottomans. And it concludes with the restoration of order in Mecca in 1632. In deciding to select this topic, I was inspired by the lack of a complete history of the Holy Lands during the period, the importance of the period, and the fact that most authors who dealt with the area, during or after the period, took sides either with the Ottomans or the Ashrafs of Mecca. In looking for sources, I was unfortunate because I could not find any Ottoman Farman of the period, but I think the other sources, primary and secondary, helped me a lot, and without hesitation I could recommend some of them to any interested student of the area or the period.

Note: / As a result of its military campaigns for religious and political reform during the latter half ot the eighteenth century, the Su'udi principality at the al-Dir'iyah developed into a powerful state. It first brought the districts of central Arabia under its control and later annexed the region of al-Hasa. [...]

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Cette étude suit le parcours de familles marchandes hadramies établies à Djedda, de 1850 à 1950. Appuyée sur des sources européennes, ottomanes et des archives privées, elle présente un groupe particulier, remarqué pour son rôle économique au Hedjaz, de la notabilité provinciale ottomane et de la diaspora hadramie. Son appartenance à la notabilité locale, remarquable dès les années 1850, tenait à l'adaptation des structures familiales à un réseau marchand étendu, au rôle de ces grands négociants dans la communauté hadramie, et leur intégration au milieu d'affaires de la cité. Djedda jouait alors le rôle de port de La Mecque et constitua une plateforme commerciale entre l'Inde, la côte africaine de la mer Rouge, et l'Égypte. Le parcours de ce familles issues du Hadramaout croise ainsi l'histoire économique et politique du Hedjaz sur un siècle. Il replace l'histoire de la province dans son contexte global, notamment dans celui des relations entre la Méditerranée et l'océan Indien. L'évolution de la composition du groupe des grands marchands hadramis de Djedda et de leurs activités accompagne les changements du cadre économique et politique du Hedjaz successivement province de l'Empire ottoman et émirat chérifien, royaume hachémite en 1916 puis région occidentale du royaume d'Arabie saoudite à partir de 1925. L'effacement, au cours des années 1930-1940, de ces grands marchands, et l'émergence d'hommes d'affaires eux aussi issus de l'immigration hadramie au Hedjaz, soulignent la réorientation du commerce et des migrations régionales, autant que le changement de régime politique et l'avènement des revenus pétroliers. / This work adresses the history of Hadrami merchant families settled in Jeddah from 1850 to 1950, a group that is still well-known for its economic role in the Hejaz and Saudi Arabia,. Built on private, Ottoman and European archives, it describes a specific group of the Ottoman provincial notability and of the Hadrami diaspora. As soon as the 1850s, their being part of Jeddah's notability was the result of three main factors : their success in adapting family agency to an extensive network of trade, their role in the local Hadhrami community, and their integration into the business group of the city. In the 19th century, Jeddah was Meccas harbor and a platform for trade between India, the East-African coast and Egypt. In this way, the history of these farnilies from Hadhramaut was closely related to the economic and political history of Hejaz. It brings back the history of the Hejaz in its global context, evidencing the connections between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. Changes in these merchants' activities and in the composition of their group paralleled the changes in the economic and political situation of the Hejaz, which was successively a province of the Ottoman Empire and a Sharifian Emirate, the Hashemite Kingdom in 1916 and the western region the Saudi Kingdom from 1925 onwards. During the 1930s and the 1940s, the gradual disappearance of these traders from the economic elite of the country, and the emergence of other Hadrami business men, illuminate the impact of new directions of trade and regional migrations, that proved as important as the new political regime and the beginning of oil wealth.