Merchants, Mamluks, and Murder

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Merchants, Mamluks, and Murder is written by Thabit A. J. Abdullah and published by State University of New York Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0791491404 (ISBN 10) and 9780791491409 (ISBN 13).

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. First, the overall nature of Basra's trade is examined; second, the book looks at the city's large wholesale merchants, the tujjar; and the third issue deals with the gradual development in Basra of the "soft areas" in Asian economies through which European articulation, followed by incorporation into the capitalist world economy, took place.