Gran, Peter. Islamic Roots of Capitalism. Egypt, 1760-1840. Foreword by Afifi Lutfi Al-Sayyid Marsot. (Modern Middle East Series, 4).

$95.00

First edition.

Prominent work by the professor at Temple University, Philadelphia, who lived in Egypt for a number of years and whose career has been occupied with attempting to write and teach a kind of Middle Eastern history free from the eurocentric biases inherited from the colonial period.

A little fading at head and foot of backstrip, otherwise a well-preserved copy in frayed and rubbed dustjacket.