Islamic Roots of Capitalism: Egypt, 1760-1840, Paperback/Peter Gran

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Challenging the ethnocentric notion that a capitalist economy could only be transferred to the peripheral states through contact with Europe, this text argues that the capitalist transformation of the Egyptian economy was begun by Muslim merchants and Mamluk rulers in the 18th century. This edition has an updated first chapter, resituating its main argument for today's readers.