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The 12 studies in this volume show that the Muslim Tujjar played a major economic role in various regions of the Middle East during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
List of contents
1 The Muslim Big Merchant-Entrepreneurs of the Middle East, 1860–1914 / 2 Muslim Tujjār of the Middle East and Their Commercial Networks in the Long Nineteenth Century / 3 The Qadi, the Big Merchant and Forbidden Interest (Ribā) / 4 Images of the Tujjār: Between Shechrazad and Ibn Khaldūn / 5 Paradigms of Trade and Finance in Ottoman Historiography / 6 Changing Patterns of Economic Ties: The Syrian and Iraqi Provinces in the Long 19th Century / 7 The Growing Economic Involvement of Palestine with the West, 1865–1914 / 8 The Opening Up of Qājār Iran: Some Economic and Social Aspects / 9 Resistance to Economic Penetration: The Kārguzār and Foreign Firms in Qajar Iran / 10 The Mysterious Death of a Commercial Agent and the Kārguzār of Mashhad, 1890/ 11 The Rise and Fall of the Tujjār Councils of Representatives in Iran, 1884–85 / 12 The Tujjār and the Persian Constitutional Revolution of 1906
About the author
Gad G. Gilbar is Professor Emeritus of Economic History of the Middle East in Modern Times at the University of Haifa, Israel. His publications include: The Economic Development of the Modern Middle East (Hebrew, 1990); (ed.), Ottoman Palestine, 1800–1914: Studies in Economic and Social History (1990); Population Dilemmas in the Middle East (1997); The Middle East Oil Decade and Beyond (1998); (co-ed.), The Baha'is of Iran, Transcaspia and the Caucasus, 2 vols. (2011).
Summary
The 12 studies in this volume show that the Muslim Tujjar played a major economic role in various regions of the Middle East during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
