Egypt's Mediterranean: Muslim Merchants and the Business of Empire in the Eighteenth Century
Author:   Zoe Ann Griffith
Publisher:   University of California Press
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9780520416642


Pages:   296
Publication Date:   14 April 2026
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Egypt's Mediterranean: Muslim Merchants and the Business of Empire in the Eighteenth Century


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Egypt's Mediterranean explores the intersections of commerce and statecraft in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire through the lives of overlooked intermediaries who lived and worked on Egypt's Mediterranean coast. Egypt's port cities mediated the geographic distance and economic scales between the province's agricultural landscape, its Red Sea connections, its hegemonic capital city, and its position within the wider Ottoman realm, while Ottoman Muslim merchants acted as linchpins of imperial governance in Egypt, mediating the state's access to Egyptian wealth. Drawing on Arabic, Ottoman, and French sources, Egypt's Mediterranean foregrounds the role of Muslims and Islamic law in Mediterranean history, decentering European capital and actors in an interconnected story of imperial realignment and changing fortunes on the eve of modernity.

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Author:   Zoe Ann Griffith
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
ISBN:  

9780520416642


ISBN 10:   0520416643
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   14 April 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you.

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Contents Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration, Dates, and Currencies Introduction: A View from the Coast 1. Biography of an Egypt Merchant 2. The Rice Pudding Treasury 3. The New Egyptian Order 4. A Muslim Mediterranean 5. The Rise of the Razzazin 6. Gilded Threads of Debt Epilogue: From Clay into Stone Notes Bibliography Index

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Zoe Griffith is Assistant Professor of History at Baruch College, CUNY.

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