caa a22 4500 386351651 CHVBK 20180307111834.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198901 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0035869X00167899 doi S0035869X00167899 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0035869X00167899 Chaudhuri K. N. A note on Ibn Taghrī Birdī's description of Chinese ships in Aden and Jedda [Elektronische Daten] [K. N. Chaudhuri] 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. Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1989 Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland Cambridge University Press 121/1(1989-01), 112-112 0035-869X 121:1<112 1989 121 JRA https://doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00167899 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00167899 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Chaudhuri K. N. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland Cambridge University Press 121/1(1989-01), 112-112 0035-869X 121:1<112 1989 121 JRA CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge