Arab Traders in Their Own Words

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-50523-0
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Arabisch, Band 165, 702 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1159 g

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Liebrenz, Boris

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Boris Liebrenz is a senior researcher at the Bibliotheca Arabica project (Leipzig). His main interest is the history of manuscripts, libraries, and readers, also the topic of his Die Rifa'iya aus Damaskus (Brill 2016; awarded the Annemarie-Schimmel-Forschungspreis 2017).