Table of Contents:
  • The individual and the collectivity in the agricultural economy of pre-colonial Morocco / Nicolas Michel
  • Why study ownership? : an approach to the study of the social history of Egypt / Raʼuf ʻAbbas Hamid
  • A multiplicity of rights : rural-urban contradictions in early nineteenth-century Egyptian land ownership / Muhammad Hakim
  • The worst of times : crisis management and al-shidda al-ʼuzma / Amina A. Elbendary
  • "Passive revolution" as a possible model for nineteenth-century Egyptian history / Peter Gran
  • Making a living or making a fortune in Ottoman Syria / Abdul-Karim Rafeq
  • Manufacturing myths : al-Khurnfish, a case study / Pascale Ghazaleh
  • The private papers of an Armenian merchant family in the Ottoman Empire, 1912-14 / Armin Kredian
  • The Rasaʼil ikhwan al-safaʼ and the controversy about the origin of craft guilds in early medieval Islam / Abbas Hamdani
  • Interaction between the monetary regimes of Istanbul, Cairo and Tunis, 1700-1875 / Şekvet Pamuk
  • Monetary causes of the financial crisis and bankruptcy of Egypt, 1875-8 / Ghislaine Alleaume
  • The financial resources of Coptic priests in nineteenth-century Egypt / Magdi Girgis
  • Perceptions of the Greek money-lender in Egyptian collective memory at the turn of the twentieth century / Sayyid ʻAshmawi.