Merchants in the Ottoman Empire

Edited by S. Faroqhi Edited by G. Veinstein

Book cover: Merchants in the Ottoman Empire

Extent: 355 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies, Language & Linguistics

Series: Collection Turcica

Series volume number: 15

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(November 2008)

ISBN: 9789042920255

Price: $82.00

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To a large extent the present volume deals with merchants established on Ottoman territory for a long time. Whether they were subjects of the sultans or not will be considered of secondary importance; but many if not most of them probably fell into that category. ‘Hard to pin down’ traders also occur; in particular we have included a number of studies discussing people who started their lives as Ottoman subjects but whose business activities took them to Venice or the Habsburg territories, where some of them struck roots. Such situations after all form part of the life stories of merchants anywhere; and given the broad expanses of sea and land that many Mediterranean traders traversed, it makes sense to adopt as broad a perspective as possible.

  • Edited by S. Faroqhi
  • Edited by G. Veinstein