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This dissertation is an ethnography of private law in contemporary Port Said, Egypt. Based on extensive fieldwork in 2005 and 2007, it considers how Port Saidians come to possess economic and social entitlements vis-à-vis one another and how concomitant obligations get construed…

Port cities in the Arabian Peninsula along the Bombay/London trade route formed the link between Europe and the colonies on the Indian Ocean. Port cities were the places where the colonial and religious interactions were the most visible. They were the locus of colonial settlers…