Merchants, Mamluks, and Murder: The Political Economy of Trade in Eighteenth-Century Basra (S U N Y SERIES IN THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST) - Softcover

Abdullah, Thabit A. J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791448088 ISBN 13: 9780791448083

Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr, 2000

Synopsis

A historiography of Ottoman Basra, a trade center in the eighteenth century.

Using the case of the murder of a Jewish merchant in 1791 as the backdrop to this study of Ottoman Basra’s long-distance trade in the eighteenth century, Thabit A. J. Abdullah takes a novel comparative approach to Middle Eastern and Indian Ocean historiography. He examines three broad interrelated issues, all of which have a direct bearing on the case of the Jewish merchant. First, the overall nature of Basra’s trade is examined; second, the book looks at the city’s large wholesale merchants, the tujjar; and the third issue deals with the gradual development in Basra of the “soft areas” in Asian economies through which European articulation, followed by incorporation into the capitalist world economy, took place.

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From the Back Cover:

Using the case of the murder of a Jewish merchant in 1791 as the backdrop to this study of Ottoman Basra's long-distance trade in the eighteenth century, Thabit A. J. Abdullah takes a novel comparative approach to Middle Eastern and Indian Ocean historiography. He examines three broad interrelated issues, all of which have a direct bearing on the case of the Jewish merchant. First, the overall nature of Basra's trade is examined; second, the book looks at the city's large wholesale merchants, the tujjar; and the third issue deals with the gradual development in Basra of the "soft areas" in Asian economies through which European articulation, followed by incorporation into the capitalist world economy, took place.

About the Author:

Thabit A. J. Abdullah is Assistant Professor of History at York University. He is the editor of Arab and Islamic Studies in Honor of Marsden Jones.

About this edition

• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0791448088
• ISBN 13: 9780791448083
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180