Synopses & Reviews
The economic history of Islamic societies in the Mediterranean before 1800 has lagged behind political, diplomatic, and social history of the area. The articles cover three topics: land, trades, and money. They examine the complexity of the history of property, including private property, and its links to individuals and communities by exploring the work of ordinary craftsmen and tradesmen, and the challenges that they confronted by providing a perspective of the individual in the context of his or her community. This view of economic realities, suggests new ways to understand economic history in a social and cultural context.
About the Author
Nelly Hanna is Associate Professor of Arabic studies at the American University of Cairo.
Table of Contents
Introduction--Nelly Hanna * The Individual and the Collectivity in the Agricultural Economy of Precolonial Morocco--Nicolas Michel * Why Study Ownership?--Ra'uf 'Abbas Hamid * Rural-Urban Contradictions in Early-19th-Century Egyptian Landownership--Muhammad Hakim * The Worst of Times--Amina A. Elbendary * "Passive Revolution" as a Possible Model for 19th-Century Egyptian Social and Economic History--Peter Gran * Manufacturing Myths--Pascale Ghazaleh * The 1912-1914 Private Papers of an Armenian Merchant Family in the Ottoman Empire--Armin Kredian * The
Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa' and the Controversy about the Origin of Craft Guilds in Early Medieval Islam--Abbas Kredian * Interaction between the Monetary Regimes of Istanbul, Cairo and Tunis, 1700-1875--Sevket Pamuk * The Monetary Causes of the Financial Crisis and Bankruptcy of Egypt, 1875-1878--Ghislaine Alleaume * Perceptions of the Greek Moneylender in Egyptian Collective Memory at the Turn of the 20th Century--Sayyid 'Ashmawi