Merchants, Mamluks, and Murder

The Political Economy of Trade in Eighteenth-Century Basra

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

Av Thabit A. J. Abdullah, Thabit a. J. Abdullah, Thabit A J Abdullah

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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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Utgivningsdatum2000-12-21
Mått150 x 227 x 12 mm
Vikt272 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East
Antal sidor200
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791448083

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List of Maps, Tables, and Figures Abbreviations Note on Transliteration Note on Currency Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Al-Basrah Al-Fayha' History up to 1700Hasan Pasha and the MamluksLocation and ClimateThe CityThe PeopleAdministration & Power 2. The Shifting Fortunes of Trade ExportsCustoms DutiesThe Ships and Their SailorsBasra's Overall Trade PatternsRise: 1724-1774Boom: 1766-1774Decline: 1775-1793 3. Networks of Trade The Maritime Trade with IndiaThe Coffee Trade and the Role of the OmanisThe Regional Trade with the GulfThe Trade with Southern PersiaThe Riverine Trade with BaghdadThe Caravan Trade with Aleppo 4. The Merchants (Tujjar) and Trade The Risks of TradeInvestment and WealthCredit and ContractsMerchant CommunitiesThe Jewish MerchantThe Armenian MerchantsThe Chalabis of Basra 5. The Merchants and Power The Mamluks and TradeThe Chalabis and the GovernmentThe Cases of Muhammad Agha and Hajji YusufThe Jews and the Mamluk AdministrationThe Armenians and the EnglishThe Case of the Murdered Jew RevisitedThe Rebellions of Shaykh and Mustafa AghaManesty's Victory and the Beginnings of British Dominance Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

"This is a highly enjoyable, well-written, well-researched work, which is a pleasure to read." — Journal of Early Modern History"This work brings to light the extraordinary extent to which Basra and, more generally, southern Iraq were tied to India, both economically and politically. Abdullah's research in Indian archives has broken open a mindset in Ottoman historiography that refused to go beyond the Persian Gulf. In this broader context, the British stake in Basra and Iraq becomes much more comprehensible." — Jane Hathaway, Ohio State University"This book brings together a body of information on Basra which has not been compiled to this extent in any other work in the English language." — Nance F. Kittner, College of St. Joseph"I am impressed with the very broad compass of the book as well as its personal mapping of some individual merchants' lives and careers. It makes a very strong case for the regionality of Basran trade, and its connectedness with the Indian Ocean, Arabia, and Istanbul in a much understudied period. A terrific amount of secondary literature has been read and incorporated, and the author has made adroit use of archival records of the trading companies of the region." — Virginia H. Aksan, author of An Ottoman Statesman in War and Peace: Ahmed Resmi Efendi, 1700–1783