Making Big Money in 1600: The Life and Times of Isma'il Abu Taqiyya, Egyptian Merchant - Paperback

by Nelly Hanna (Author)

Nelly Hanna's work challenges the standard perceptions about Middle East society and economy of the seventeenth century. Both novel in its approach and information, this book's central theme revolves
around the rise of an indigenous form of capitalism existing as early as the 1600s.

Author Biography

Nelly Hanna is an associate professor of Arabic studies at the American University of Cairo. She is the author of An Urban History of Bulaq in the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods, the editor of The State and Its Servants: Administration in Egypt from Ottoman Times to the Present, and has produced many academic articles in English, French, and Arabic.