Money, land and trade : an economic history of the Muslim Mediterranean / edited by Nelly Hanna.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hanna, Nelly.

Series:

Islamic Mediterranean ; 3.

The Islamic Mediterranean ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land tenure.

History.

Commerce.

Economic conditions.

Islamic countries--Economic conditions.

Islamic countries.

Mediterranean Region--Economic conditions.

Mediterranean Region.

Islamic countries--Commerce--History.

Mediterranean Region--Commerce--History.

Land tenure--Islamic countries--History.

Land tenure--Mediterranean Region--History.

Physical Description:

295 pages : map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; Strasbourg, France : In association with The European Science Foundation, 2002.

Summary:

The economic history of Islamic societies in the Mediterranean before 1800 has lagged behind political, diplomatic, and social history of the area. The articles cover three topics: land, trades, and money. They examine the complexity of the history of property, including private property, and its links to individuals and communities by exploring the work of ordinary craftsmen and tradesmen, and the challenges that they confronted by providing a perspective of the individual in the context of his or her community. This view of economic realities, suggests new ways to understand economic history in a social and cultural context.

Contents:

The individual and the collectivity in the agricultural economy of pre-colonial Morocco / Nicolas Michel

Why study ownership? : an approach to the study of the social history of Egypt / Raʾuf ʻAbbas Hamid

A multiplicity of rights : rural-urban contradictions in early nineteenth-century Egyptian land ownership / Muhammad Hakim

The worst of times : crisis management and al-shidda al-ʾuzma / Amina A. Elbendary

"Passive revolution" as a possible model for nineteenth-century Egyptian history / Peter Gran

Making a living or making a fortune in Ottoman Syria / Abdul-Karim Rafeq

Manufacturing myths : al-Khurnfish, a case study / Pascale Ghazaleh

The private papers of an Armenian merchant family in the Ottoman Empire, 1912-14 / Armin Kredian

The Rasaʾil ikhwan al-safaʾ and the controversy about the origin of craft guilds in early medieval Islam / Abbas Hamdani

Interaction between the monetary regimes of Istanbul, Cairo and Tunis, 1700-1875 / Şekvet Pamuk

Monetary causes of the financial crisis and bankruptcy of Egypt, 1875-8 / Ghislaine Alleaume

The financial resources of Coptic priests in nineteenth-century Egypt / Magdi Girgis

Perceptions of the Greek money-lender in Egyptian collective memory at the turn of the twentieth century / Sayyid ʻAshmawi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1860646999

OCLC:

50816125