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Article: Making Big Money in 1600: The Life and Times of [Isma.sup.[subset]]il Abu Taqiyya, Egyptian Merchant.(Review)
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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- January 1, 2001
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Making Big Money in 1600: The Life and Times of [Isma.sup.[subset]]il Abu Taqiyya, Egyptian Merchant. By NELLY HANNA. Syracuse, N.Y.: SYRACUSE UNIV. PRESS, 1998. Pp. xi + 219. $44.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
Although [Isma.sup.[subset]]il Abu Taqiyya (fl. 1580-1624) was shahbandar al-tujjar Cairo--the titular head of the merchant community in one of the great international trading centers--and a wealthy and important man, he is mentioned nowhere in the chronicles of the time. Thus writing a biography of him without the use of traditional sources (diaries, personal papers, memoirs, local histories) poses interesting historiographical problems. Many of us who have ...
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