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Merchants and Trade in Early Modern Iraq

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Dina Rizk Khoury
Dina Rizk Khoury*
Affiliation:
George Washington University, Department of History
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The literature on merchants and trade in the early modern Middle East is still rudimentary. Although the period witnessed basic changes in trade patterns of the region, there have been very few regional studies addressing the nature of trade and the various groups engaged in it, either from an internal or local perspective or from an international one (Masters, 1988; Raymond, 1984; Abdel-Nour, 1982). For much of the Arab world there is a gap in the literature between Goitein's and Ashtor's works on the Middle Ages on the one hand, and the eighteenth century on the other when northern European companies acquired a strong foothold in the area (Goitein, 1966, 1967; Ashtor, 1978). For Iraq there exist almost no general works on the early Ottoman period and the Iraqi archives remain inaccessible. Thus, any conclusions on trade and merchants in Iraq during this period are by necessity tentative and general. There are a number of issues that can be raised with respect to early modern Iraq, however, which are relevant to the history of early modern trade in general.

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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 6: Special Issue on Ottoman Trade , fall 1991 , pp. 53 - 86
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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 1991

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