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TRADING IN POWER: MERCHANTS AND THE STATE IN 19TH-CENTURY EGYPT
In this article, I argue that commercial legislation promulgated and implemented in Egypt during the first half of the 19th century was one of several factors that diminished the effect of merchants’ social networks, reduced merchants’ identity to a purely professional dimension, and made profit dependent upon association with the state. The transformation of merchants’ social roles was not part of a natural evolution toward modernization and the specialized division of labor. Rather, it resulted from interactions between state-building endeavors, pressures from established merchants who sought to parry threats to their position while profiting from new business opportunities, and an influx of merchants from outside the Ottoman sultanate, who could draw neither on personal connections nor on knowledge of local markets but instead had to depend on the protection of the European consulates and the influence of the growing Egyptian state apparatus.
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التحول الكبير : إعادة تكوين الثروات وشبكات التحول الاجتماعي في عصر محمد علي
يتناول الكتاب كيفية تأسيس وتعزيز ونقل الثروات في مصر في الفترة بين عامي 1830-1780 بالاستناد إلى حجج المحاكم العثمانية ووثائق الدولة المصرية. تبحث بسكال غزالة عن كيفية تأسيس وتعزيز وأيلولة الثروات من خلال نموذج طائفة التجار في قاهرة أواخر القرن الثامن عشر وبداية القرن العشرين بتعقب الفئات الاجتماعية التي ساهمت في تكوين المجتمع المصري الحضري في العصر العثماني. ودراسة العلاقات القانونية والمادية بين أفراد كبار التجار وممارساتهم العملية لتكوين وتدعيم ثرواتهم ومن ثم تعيد المؤلفة رسم مسارات هذه الثروات عبر جميع تفاصيلها القانونية والاقتصادية والاجتماعي.
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Closed Markets? Creating Communities, Personalizing Property in Late Ottoman Egypt
In this article, I propose to examine examples of property entering and exiting various circuits of exchange, and to trace the ways in which these trajectories created communities of owners and beneficiaries. In particular, I look at the impact of property's removal from the market and its incorporation into another circuit of exchange, as in the case of waqf, bequest, or individualized attribution. The possibility of isolating assets from the circuits of inheritance, on one hand, and market exchange, on the other, made certain objects of property immune to the possibility of anonymous sale and purchase. Because the fact of removing goods from the market to establish a waqf or make a bequest did not mean immobilizing them permanently, rights flowed around these goods, creating networks of exchange and shared entitlement. By focusing on the specific ways in which extracting property from the circuit of monetary transactions, and stripping it of its attributes as a commodity, created communities, it becomes possible to see how «non market» practices also perpetuated or accommodated the possibility of deferred, restricted, or renewed market relations.
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A season in Mecca : narrative of a pilgrimage
In 1999, the Moroccan scholar Abdellah Hammoudi, trained in Paris and teaching in America, decided to go on the pilgrimage to Mecca. He wanted to observe the hajj as an anthropologist but also to experience it as an ordinary pilgrim, and to write about it for both Muslims and non-Muslims. Here is his intimate, intense, and detailed account of the Hajj--a rare and important document by a subtle, learned, and sympathetic writer. Hammoudi describes not just the adventure, the human pressures, and the social tumult--everything from the early preparations to the last climactic scenes in the holy shrines of Medina and Mecca--but also the intricate politics and amazing complexity of the entire pilgrimage experience. He pays special heed to the effects of Saudi bureaucratic control over the Hajj, to the ways that faith itself becomes a lucrative source of commerce for the Arabian kingdom, and to the Wahhabi inflections of the basic Muslim message. Here, too, is a poignant discussion of the inner voyage that pilgrimage can mean to those who embark on it: the transformed sense of daily life, of worship, and of political engagement. Hammoudi acknowledges that he was spurred to reconsider his own ideas about faith, gesture, community, and nationality in unanticipated ways. This is a remarkable work of literature about both the outer forms and the inner meanings of Islam today.
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Beyond Terror and Martyrdom
Kepel urges us to escape the ideological quagmire of terrorism and martyrdom and explore the terms of a new and constructive dialogue between Islam and the West. This book sounds the alarm to the West and to Islam that both of these exhausted narratives are bankrupt-neither productive of democratic change in the Middle East nor of unity in Islam.
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