List of Maps, Tables, and Figures Abbreviations Note on Transliteration Note on Currency Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Al-Basrah Al-Fayha' History up to 1700 Hasan Pasha and the Mamluks Location and Climate The City The People Administration & Power 2. The Shifting Fortunes of Trade Exports Customs Duties The Ships and Their Sailors Basra's Overall Trade Patterns Rise: 1724-1774 Boom: 1766-1774 Decline: 1775-1793 3. Networks of Trade The Maritime Trade with India The Coffee Trade and the Role of the Omanis The Regional Trade with the Gulf The Trade with Southern Persia The Riverine Trade with Baghdad The Caravan Trade with Aleppo 4. The Merchants (Tujjar) and Trade The Risks of Trade Investment and Wealth Credit and Contracts Merchant Communities The Jewish Merchant The Armenian Merchants The Chalabis of Basra 5. The Merchants and Power The Mamluks and Trade The Chalabis and the Government The Cases of Muhammad Agha and Hajji Yusuf The Jews and the Mamluk Administration The Armenians and the English The Case of the Murdered Jew Revisited The Rebellions of Shaykh and Mustafa Agha Manesty's Victory and the Beginnings of British Dominance Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Thabit A. J. Abdullah is Assistant Professor of History at York University. He is the editor of Arab and Islamic Studies in Honor of Marsden Jones.
"This is a highly enjoyable, well-written, well-researched work, which is a pleasure to read." - Journal of Early Modern History "This work brings to light the extraordinary extent to which Basra and, more generally, southern Iraq were tied to India, both economically and politically. Abdullah's research in Indian archives has broken open a mindset in Ottoman historiography that refused to go beyond the Persian Gulf. In this broader context, the British stake in Basra and Iraq becomes much more comprehensible." - Jane Hathaway, Ohio State University "This book brings together a body of information on Basra which has not been compiled to this extent in any other work in the English language." - Nance F. Kittner, College of St. Joseph "I am impressed with the very broad compass of the book as well as its personal mapping of some individual merchants' lives and careers. It makes a very strong case for the regionality of Basran trade, and its connectedness with the Indian Ocean, Arabia, and Istanbul in a much understudied period. A terrific amount of secondary literature has been read and incorporated, and the author has made adroit use of archival records of the trading companies of the region." - Virginia H. Aksan, author of An Ottoman Statesman in War and Peace: Ahmed Resmi Efendi, 1700-1783
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