Society and economy in Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean, 1600-1900 : essays in honor of André Raymond / edited by Nelly Hanna and Raouf Abbas.

English and French essays.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : André Raymond, the historian / Nelly Hanna and Raouf Abbas -- Egypt and Italy, 1760-1850 : toward a comparative history / Peter Gran -- Power and authority in late eighteenth-century Egypt / Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot -- Les artisans dans la ville : ateliers de tissage et tisserands d̕Asyût à la fin du XVIIe siècle, d̕après les registres du tribunal du qâdî / Nicolas Michel -- The integration of religious communities in the workplace in Ottoman Syria and during their stay in Egypt / Abdul-Karim Rafeq -- The Fez merchants in eighteenth-century Cairo / Husam Muhammad Abdul Muʻti -- Heirs and debtors : blood relatives, Qur̕anic heirs, and business associates in Cairo, 1800-50 / Pascale Ghazaleh -- How the Shariʻa sees women's work / Amira al-Azhary Sonbol -- The study of astronomy according to the chronicle of al-Jabarti / Sabri al-ʻAdl -- The organization of the Coptic community in the Ottoman period / Magdi Guirguis -- Islam and its adherents as represented in Russian pilgrims' reports of the eighteenth century / Svetlana Kirillina..