Guilds, Merchants, & Ulama in nineteenth-century IRAN: English 2009
Guilds, Merchants, & Ulama in nineteenth-century IRAN
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ISBN:
9781933823317
Publisher:
MAGE PUBLISHERS
Age Group:
Adult
Pages:
264
Weight:
650 g
Dimensions:
21 x 28 x 1.85 cm
Book Cover:
Paperback
Merchants and bankers managed much of nineteenth-century Iran’s economy and finances. The ulama—clerical leaders—who considered themselves responsible for the spiritual welfare of their flock also played an important economic role, in particular, through management of religious endowments. Numerically, however, the most important group was that of the traders and craftsmen, who were organized into guilds and who formed thirty to fifty percent of the urban population. Finally, there were the unskilled, mostly seasonal, laborers.
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Merchants and bankers managed much of nineteenth-century Iran’s economy and finances. The ulama—clerical leaders—who considered themselves responsible for the spiritual welfare of their flock also played an important economic role, in particular, through management of religious endowments. Numerically, however, the most important group was that of the traders and craftsmen, who were organized into guilds and who formed thirty to fifty percent of the urban population. Finally, there were the unskilled, mostly seasonal, laborers.
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