Trade and immigration in early Ḥafṣid Tunis
Evidence from Genoa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3979533 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joel Pattison (0000-0003-4107-7234, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 665-678 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of North African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-9387 • E-ISSN: 1743-9345 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13629387.2020.1763109 |
| OpenAlex | W3031822829 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 16 |
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
Ancient history · Archaeology · Diversity (politics · Economics · Economy · Geography · Immigration · Mediterranean climate · Political science · Politics · Port (circuit theory · State (computer science · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Law · Medieval History and Crusades · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
The Tunis Crusade of 1270
Les papes et le Maghreb aux XIIIème et XIVème siècles
Money and its Use in Medieval Europe
Spiritual Rationality
The Genoese Exportation of Northern Cloths to Mediterranean Ports, Twelfth Century
The market for northern textiles in Genoa 1179-1200
The Last Almohads
Jews and Muslims in Medieval Genoa
Commercial conflict resolution across the religious divide in the thirteenth-century Mediterranean
The Papacy and Christian Mercenaries of Thirteenth-Century North Africa
The Origins of the Commenda Contract
Ecclesiae Mercatorum and the Rise of Merchant Colonies
Wage Labor and Guilds in Medieval Europe
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |