Artisan entrepreneurs: in Cairo and early-modern capitalism (1600-1800)

Defining a framework for the economic history of early-modern Egypt

Artisan entrepreneurs: capitalist practices in a precapitalist environment

A period of unprecedented social mobility for nonelites

The Jalfis: oil pressers and emirs

Competition between different forms of capitalism

Guilds: moving between traditional and precapitalist structures

Conclusion: what remained of artisan entrepreneurship a hundred years later?.