The story of the Dahlak Archipelago’s wealthiest pearl merchant, ‘Ali
al-Nahari (d. 1930), who had traded directly with Europe and and had invested
his earnings in real estate in in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Henry de Monfreid (1879-1974), the eccentric French adventurer, commercial
entrepreneur, arms and drug smuggler and author of dozens of books,
immortalized ‘Ali al-Nahari as one of the principal characters in his first and
most known book, Les secrets
de le mer Rouge. (Jonathan Miran)
قصة علي النهاري من رواد تجارة اللؤلؤ في دهلك ومصوع
بقلم أحمد السيد عثمان
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Jonathan Miran’s “Diving
for the sky’s tears: The pearl Industry in the Dahlak Archipelago, Red Sea,
1860s – 1930
Explores various aspects of the evolution of the
lucrative and labor intensive pearling industry in the Dahlak Archipelago off
the Eritrean coasts in a period that witnessed this area’s spectacular and
dynamic integration into global commercial structures. Serving as an excellent
example of the ways by which commercial transformation in the wider area amplified
the chain of production, trade and consumption of marine products, the pearling
industry involved a distinct infrastructure of financing, labor and
commercialization which married an assortment of Red Sea and Indian Ocean
actors. Pearl divers who were either ‘African’ slaves or freed slaves and
‘Arabs’ provided the labor (the paper explains the problems ambiguities with
these terms), Persian Gulf, Hijazi, Yemeni, Dahlaki or Massawan boat owners
handled fishing crews and provided for transportation, whereas Indian and Arab
merchants financed pearl-fishing enterprises and purchased the luxurious marine
products that found their way to Bombay and to consumers in the capitals of
Europe, especially London, Paris and Vienna. The Dahlak pearling industry
epitomizes interregional connections across the north-western and reveals how
Italian colonial intervention in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
century aimed to “modernize” and render more economically efficient this
economic sector in their colony. The paper includes a discussion of the
exceptional case of the Archipelago’s wealthiest pearl merchant, ‘Ali al-Nahari
(d. 1930), who had traded directly with Europe and and had invested his
earnings in real estate in in the early decades of the twentieth century. Henry
de Monfreid (1879-1974), the eccentric French adventurer, commercial
entrepreneur, arms and drug smuggler and author of dozens of books,
immortalized ‘Ali al-Nahari as one of the principal characters in his first and
most known book, Les secrets
de le mer Rouge.
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