Arab Traders in Their Own Words: Merchant Letters from the Eastern Mediterranean Around 1800 - Couverture rigide

Liebrenz, Boris

 
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Synopsis

Arab Traders in their Own Words explores for the first time the largest corpus of merchant correspondence to have survived from the Ottoman period. The mostly Christian traders of the Syrian and Egyptian provinces lived through one of the most turbulent intersections of Ottoman and European imperial history

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À propos de l?auteur

Boris Liebrenz is a senior researcher at the Bibliotheca Arabica project (Leipzig) and member of the editorial board of the Journal of Islamic Manuscripts. 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).

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