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 introductory ess...

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Main Author: Guo, Li (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English
Arabic

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2004.

Series: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.
Islamic History and Civilization ; 52.

Subjects:

City and town life > Egypt > History > Sources.

City and town life.

Commerce.

Manners and customs.