Arab traders in their own words: merchant letters from the Eastern Mediterranean, around 1800

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Acknowledgements -- ‎Analysis -- ‎1. Merchants and Letters -- ‎1.1. Corpus and Methodology -- ‎1.2. Where Have All the Letters Gone? -- ‎2. Dramatis Personae -- ‎3. The Landscape of a Levantine Network -- ‎3.1. Damietta -- ‎3.2. Alexandria -- ‎3.3. Rosetta -- ‎3.4. Jaffa -- ‎3.5. Acre -- ‎3.6. Jerusalem -- ‎3.7. Nablus -- ‎3.8. Damascus -- ‎4. Being a Merchant -- ‎5. Letter Writing-Historical and Practical Perspectives -- ‎6. "… for the present sees what the absent does not." The Importance of Information Flow -- ‎7. News and Information -- ‎8. The World of Politics -- ‎9. Culture and Commerce-Merchant Patronage and Translation Movements -- ‎10. Language and Style -- ‎10.1. Syntax -- ‎11. Networks -- ‎11.1. Family -- ‎11.2. Community -- ‎12. Trade and Goods -- ‎12.1. Textiles -- ‎12.2. Coffee -- ‎12.3. Payments and Credit -- ‎12.4. Following the Money: A Case Study of Debt -- ‎Edition -- ‎Letter 1 -- ‎Letter 2 -- ‎Letter 3 -- ‎Letter 4 -- ‎Letter 5 -- ‎Letter 6 -- ‎Letter 7 -- ‎Letter 8 -- ‎Letter 9 -- ‎Letter 10 -- ‎Letter 11 -- ‎Letter 12 -- ‎Letter 13 -- ‎Letter 14 -- ‎Letter 15 -- ‎Letter 16 -- ‎Letter 17 -- ‎Letter 18 -- ‎Letter 19 -- ‎Letter 20 -- ‎Letter 21 -- ‎Letter 22 -- ‎Letter 23 -- ‎Letter 24 -- ‎Letter 25 -- ‎Letter 26 -- ‎Letter 27 -- ‎Letter 28 -- ‎Letter 29 -- ‎Letter 30 -- ‎Letter 31 -- ‎Letter 32 -- ‎Letter 33 -- ‎Letter 34 -- ‎Letter 35 -- ‎Letter 36 -- ‎Letter 37 -- ‎Letter 38 -- ‎Letter 39 -- ‎Letter 40 -- ‎Letter 41 -- ‎Letter 42 -- ‎Letter 43 -- ‎Letter 44 -- ‎Letter 45 -- ‎Letter 46 -- ‎Letter 47 -- ‎Letter 48 -- ‎Letter 49 -- ‎Letter 50 -- ‎Letter 51 -- ‎Letter 52 -- ‎Letter 53 -- ‎Letter 54 -- ‎Letter 55 -- ‎Letter 56 -- ‎Letter 57 -- ‎Letter 58 -- ‎Letter 59 -- ‎Letter 60 -- ‎Letter 61 -- ‎Letter 62 -- ‎Letter 63 -- ‎Letter 64 -- ‎Letter 65 -- ‎Letter 66 -- ‎Letter 67 -- ‎Letter 68 -- ‎Letter 69.

"Arab Traders in their Own Words explores for the first time the largest unified corpus of merchant correspondence to have survived from the Ottoman period. The writers chosen for this first volume were mostly Christian merchants who traded within a network that connected the Syrian and Egyptian provinces and extended from Damascus in the North to Alexandria in the South with particular centers in Jerusalem and Damietta. They lived through one of the most turbulent intersections of Ottoman and European imperial history, the 1790s and early 1800s, and had to navigate their fortunes through diplomacy, culture, and commerce. Besides an edition of more than 190 letters in colloquial Arabic this volume also offers a profound introductory study"--

"Arab Traders in their Own Words explores for the first time the largest unified corpus of merchant correspondence to have survived from the Ottoman period. The writers chosen for this first volume were mostly Christian merchants who traded within a network that connected the Syrian and Egyptian provinces and extended from Damascus in the North to Alexandria in the South with particular centers in Jerusalem and Damietta. They lived through one of the most turbulent intersections of Ottoman and European imperial history, the 1790s and early 1800s, and had to navigate their fortunes through diplomacy, culture, and commerce. Besides an edition of more than 190 letters in colloquial Arabic this volume also offers a profound introductory study"--