Trade and immigration in early Ḥafṣid Tunis

Evidence from Genoa

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3979533
AutoresJoel Pattison (0000-0003-4107-7234, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen26
Número4
Páginas665-678
Fecha de publicación2021-07-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of North African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1362-9387 • E-ISSN: 1743-9345
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13629387.2020.1763109
OpenAlexW3031822829
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas16

In the 1220s, the Ḥafṣids inherited the administration of Tunis, which was to become one of the most important port cities of the Western Mediterranean. Managing economic and political relations with a number of competing and mutually hostile European powers remained a critical task for the early Ḥafṣid rulers. Like their Almohad predecessors, the Ḥafṣids sought both to encourage foreign trade and to closely monitor the presence and activities of the merchants involved in it, particularly when these were associated with powerful and potentially antagonistic European Christian rulers. This paper analyses the relationship between the Ḥafṣids and the city of Genoa during this period (roughly 1220 to 1280 CE), deploying evidence from the Genoese state archives and from recently published letters from European mendicants active in Tunis in the early 1230s. Analysing these sources reveals the diversity of the social groups and commodities that changed hands across the Mediterranean during the early decades of Ḥafṣid rule in Ifrīqiya, and argues that Tunisian presence in Genoa, while still small, was larger and more complex than has been assumed

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