Format:
1 Online-Ressource (IX, 701 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9789004505247
Series Statement:
Handbook of Oriental Studies volume 165
Content:
"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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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English and Arabic
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004505230
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Handbook Oriental studies ; section 1, volume 165: The Near and Middle East: Arab traders in their own words Leiden : Brill, 2022 ISBN 9789004505230
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Osmanisches Reich
;
Levante
;
Handel
;
Geschichte 1697-1807
DOI:
10.1163/9789004505247
Author information:
Liebrenz, Boris 1983-
