Merchants, Mamluks, and Murder

The Political Economy of Trade in Eighteenth-Century Basra

Thabit A. J. Abdullah (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2000
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-7914-4808-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

List of Maps, Tables, and Figures

Abbreviations

Note on Transliteration

Note on Currency

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Al-Basrah Al-Fayha'

History up to 1700
Hasan Pasha and the Mamluks
Location and Climate
The City
The People
Administration & Power

2. The Shifting Fortunes of Trade

Exports
Customs Duties
The Ships and Their Sailors
Basra's Overall Trade Patterns
Rise: 1724-1774
Boom: 1766-1774
Decline: 1775-1793

3. Networks of Trade

The Maritime Trade with India
The Coffee Trade and the Role of the Omanis
The Regional Trade with the Gulf
The Trade with Southern Persia
The Riverine Trade with Baghdad
The Caravan Trade with Aleppo

4. The Merchants (Tujjar) and Trade

The Risks of Trade
Investment and Wealth
Credit and Contracts
Merchant Communities
The Jewish Merchant
The Armenian Merchants
The Chalabis of Basra

5. The Merchants and Power

The Mamluks and Trade
The Chalabis and the Government
The Cases of Muhammad Agha and Hajji Yusuf
The Jews and the Mamluk Administration
The Armenians and the English
The Case of the Murdered Jew Revisited
The Rebellions of Shaykh and Mustafa Agha
Manesty's Victory and the Beginnings of British Dominance

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.12.2000
Reihe/Serie	SUNY series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	0-7914-4808-8 / 0791448088
ISBN-13	978-0-7914-4808-3 / 9780791448083
Zustand	Neuware