Egypt's Mediterranean Muslim merchants and the business of empire in the eighteenth century Zoe Ann Griffith

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffith, Zoe, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Port cities--Egypt--History--18th century.

Port cities.

Egypt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Oakland University of California Press [2026]

Summary:

Egypt's Mediterranean explores the intersections of commerce and statecraft in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire through the lives of overlooked intermediaries who lived and worked on Egypt's Mediterranean coast. Egypt's port cities mediated the geographic distance and economic scales between the province's agricultural landscape, its Red Sea connections, its hegemonic capital city, and its position within the wider Ottoman realm, while Ottoman Musl

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration, Dates, and Currencies

Introduction: A View from the Coast

1. Biography of an Egypt Merchant

2. The Rice Pudding Treasury

3. The New Egyptian Order

4. A Muslim Mediterranean

5. The Rise of the Razzazin

6. Gilded Threads of Debt

Epilogue: From Clay into Stone

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 17, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version:

Print version Griffith, Zoe Ann Egypt's Mediterranean

ISBN:

9780520416659

0520416651

OCLC:

1579848579

Publisher Number:

CIPO000352679

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license