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A note on Ibn Taghrī Birdī's description of Chinese ships in Aden and Jedda
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The Ming maritime expeditions organized by Cheng Ho during the reign of Emperor Yung-lo have been studied intensively by Sinologists and the historians of the eastern Indian Ocean. The scattered references in the Islamic sources to the arrival of Chinese ships at the Middle Eastern ports on the other hand have not been properly collated with the evidence from Chinese historical sources. While working on Ibn Taghrī Birdī's history of Mamlūk Egypt, I accidentally came across a passage which graphically describes the possible economic impact of the Ming voyages on the revenue of local rulers. The historian was referring to the last expedition and the arrival of ships during the reign of al-Malik al-Ashraf Barsbay.
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“Shaww ā l 22 [21 June A.D. 1432]. A report came from Mecca the Honored that a number of junks had come from China to the seaports of India, and two of them had anchored in the port of Aden, but their goods, chinaware, silk, musk, and the like, were not disposed of there because of the disorder of the state of Yemen. The captains of these two junks wrote to the Shar ī f Barak ā t ibn H ̣ asan ibn ʿ”
From The impact of Zheng He's expeditions on Indian Ocean interactions (2016) · cites this paper as Chaudhuri 1989: 112
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- Birdī, 1958, History of Egypt 1382–1469 A.D. Part IV, 1422–1438 A.D., 86
- Yajima, 1976, A Chronicle of the Rasulid Dynasty of Yemen from the Unique MS Paris No. Arabe 4609, 21
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- Authors
- Chaudhuri, K. N.
- Corresponding author
- Chaudhuri, K. N.
- Venue
- Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1989-01
- Volume
- 121
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 112-112
- ISSN
- 0035-869X (ISSN-L)
- 2051-2066
- OpenAlex
- W2007942882
- Cited by
- 1
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Medieval History and Crusades
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Eurasian Exchange Networks
- Keywords
- Cheng Ho, Chinese ships, Aden, Jeddah, Mamluk Egypt, Islamic sources, local revenue
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