Breaching the Bronze Wall: Franks at Mamluk and Ottoman Courts and Markets
Breaching the Bronze Wall deals with the idea that the words of honorable Muslims constitute proof and that written documents and the words of non-Muslims are of inferior value. Thus, foreign merchants in cities such as Istanbul, Damascus or Alexandria could barely prove any claim, as neither their...
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Brill
2020
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