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Arab Traders in Their Own Words
Arab Traders in their Own Words explores for the first time the largest unified corpus of merchant correspondence to have survived from the Ottoman period. The writers chosen for this first volume were mostly Christian merchants who traded within a network that connected the Syrian and Egyptian provinces and extended from Damascus in the North to Alexandria in the South with particular centers in Jerusalem and Damietta. They lived through one of the most turbulent intersections of Ottoman and European imperial history, the 1790s and early 1800s, and had to navigate their fortunes through diplomacy, culture, and commerce. Besides an edition of more than 190 letters in colloquial Arabic this volume also offers a profound introductory study.
How Commerce Became Legal
When Egypt's markets opened to private capital in the 1840s, a new infrastructure of commercial laws and institutions emerged. Egypt became the site of profound legal experimentation, and the resulting commercial sphere reflected the political contestations among the governors of Egypt, European consulates, Ottoman rulers, and a growing number of private entrepreneurs, both foreign and local. How Commerce Became Legal explores the legal and business practices that resulted from this fusion of Ottoman, French, and Islamic legal concepts and governed commerce in Egypt. Focusing on the decades between the formalization of Cairo's practical autonomy within the Ottoman Empire in the 1840s and its...
Levantines of the Ottoman World: Communities, Identities, and Cultures
In this insightful volume, a range of scholars from different backgrounds and disciplines delves into the intricate world of Levantine Studies, unraveling the multifaceted history, identities, and communities that have shaped the region. Spanning the long nineteenth century until the present day, this collection offers a fresh and nuanced perspective on the Levant, challenging traditional paradigms and shedding light on previously unexplored aspects of Levantine life. Through their meticulous research and compelling narratives, the authors explore the hidden histories of marginalized populations, examine the formation of communal ties beyond conventional affiliations, and shed light on the d...
Jews and the Mediterranean
A selection of essays examining the significance of what Jewish history and Mediterranean studies contribute to our knowledge of the other. Jews and the Mediterranean considers the historical potency and uniqueness of what happens when Sephardi, Mizrahi, and Ashkenazi Jews meet in the Mediterranean region. By focusing on the specificity of the Jewish experience, the essays gathered in this volume emphasize human agency and culture over the length of Mediterranean history. This collection draws attention to what made Jewish people distinctive and warns against facile notions of Mediterranean connectivity, diversity, fluidity, and hybridity, presenting a new assessment of the Jewish experience in the Mediterranean.
Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean
A fascinating history of nineteenth century Eastern Mediterranean port cities, re-examining European influence over the changing lives of their urban populations.
Merchants in the Ottoman Empire
To a large extent the present volume deals with merchants established on Ottoman territory for a long time. Whether they were subjects of the sultans or not will be considered of secondary importance; but many if not most of them probably fell into that category. 'Hard to pin down' traders also occur; in particular we have included a number of studies discussing people who started their lives as Ottoman subjects but whose business activities took them to Venice or the Habsburg territories, where some of them struck roots. Such situations after all form part of the life stories of merchants anywhere; and given the broad expanses of sea and land that many Mediterranean traders traversed, it makes sense to adopt as broad a perspective as possible.
نحو تاريخ ثقافي للمرحلة المملوكية
Papers presented at a conference held at the University of Balamand, Lebanon, May 4-7, 2005.
Glaube, Skepsis, Poesie
Das Buch handelt von arabischen Istanbul-Reisende im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert.
Hommes de l'entre-deux
"Des Cap Corsins et des marchands maltais entre Marseille, l'Italie et les côtes de Barbarie ; des 'Levantins' à Alep, à Smyrne et à Constantinople ; des chrétiens syriens entre le Liban, l'Égypte, la France et au-delà : des ecclésiastiques orientaux ; des intellectuels de la Nahda ; des fonctionnaires égyptiens ou ottomans 'modernisateurs' : la palette de ces 'hommes de l'entre-deux', du XVIe au début du XXe siècle, est large, et invite à considérer la frontière méditerranéenne, entre l'Europe chrétienne d'une part et l'Empire ottoman musulman de l'autre, comme un lieu de l'interactivité et de l'interrelation, plutôt que de l'opposition et de l'affrontement. La course et le commerce, les associations d'affaires et l'endettement, les cursus de formation 'moderne', les travaux de traduction et de journalisme, l'exercice de charges administratives, la mise en œuvre de projets de protection du patrimoine, sont autant de champs d'activité où s'élaborent très concrètement des 'histoires croisées', des représentations et des modes d'action qui constituent la matière des identités respectives."--Page 4 of cover
