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Commerce, culture, and community in a Red Sea port in the thirteenth century : the Arabic documents from Quseir /
"This book is the first comprehensive study of the Arabic documents uncovered in Quseir, Upper Egypt, during the 1980s. The hundreds of paper fragments shed light on activities and operations of a family shipping business on the Red Sea shore in the thirteenth century. Part One is an introducto...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Arabic |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2004.
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| Colección: | Islamic history and civilization ;
v. 52. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 "Sheikh's house"
- Ch. 2 Red Sea commerce at Quseir
- Ch. 3 Life, death, and God : aspects of popular belief and culture
- Concluding remarks : the Red Sea trade on the eve of the "world system"
- Ch. 4 documents.