Friends and Rivals in the East: Studies in Anglo-Dutch Relations in the Levant from the Seventeenth to the Early Nineteenth Century (Publications of the Sir Thomas Browne Institute Leiden) - Hardcover

9789004118546: Friends and Rivals in the East: Studies in Anglo-Dutch Relations in the Levant from the Seventeenth to the Early Nineteenth Century (Publications of the Sir Thomas Browne Institute Leiden)

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ISBN 10: 9004118543 ISBN 13: 9789004118546

Publisher: Brill, 2000

This is the first book, based on both European and Ottoman sources, to examine the commercial, military, and diplomatic relations between the Dutch and the English in the Levant in the early modern period with a special emphasis on the role played by the Ottoman officials and the local Christian dragomans or interpreters.

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About the Author:

Alastair Hamilton is the Dr. C. Louise Thijssen-Schoute Professor of the History of Ideas at Leiden University. His publications include William Bedwell the Arabist 1563-1632 (Brill, 1985) and Europe and the Arab World (Azimuth-OUP, 1994).
Alexander H. de Groot is Reader in Islamic Institutions at Leiden University. His publications include The Ottoman Empire and the Dutch Republic: A History of the Earliest Relations, 1610-1630 (Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut, 1978).
Maurits H. van den Boogert is completing his dissertation at Leiden University on Ottoman dragomans under European protection in eighteenth-century Aleppo.

Review:

'...an interesting set of case studies amied primarily at an audience of scholars of the Middle East and Europe.'
Palmira Brummett, MESA Bulletin, 2001.

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