خضوع الحجاز للعثمانيين

Al-Salabi says that Barakat ibn Muhammad, sharif of Mecca, submitted to the sultan Selim I after the killing of the sultan Qansuh al-Ghawri, and handed him the keys of the Ka'ba. ¹

The Hijaz had been subject to the Mamluk state. When Barakat learned of the killing of the sultan and of his deputy Tuman Bay, he hastened to submit, and handed Selim the keys and some relics. Selim confirmed him as amir over Mecca and the Hijaz and gave him wide powers. ¹

The Ottoman sultan became servant of the two holy sanctuaries, and the state endowed many endowments for the holy places. ¹

Al-Salabi holds that the annexation of the Hijaz extended Ottoman sovereignty over the Red Sea, so the Portuguese danger was kept away from the Hijaz and its coasts until the end of the eighteenth century. ¹