Merchants, Mamluks, and Murder

Merchants, Mamluks, and MurderA 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.

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