Seeking to widen the constellation of pasts in studies of capitalism, this article contributes to interventions into the dominant narratives and frameworks in the history of capitalism. It discusses Western historiography and historicism in relation to the role that Islamic cultural geographies and sugar, as an iconic commodity, have played in the history of European capitalism and colonialism. This alternative rendition of sugar brings together significant archaeological and historical sources of sugar production in Egypt and Syria-Palestine during the medieval and Ottoman periods. Islamic sugar production and markets are discussed in relation to Western framings of historical capitalism, global commodities, unequal exchange, and capital accumulation. Questioning modernity’s framing of history and capitalism, this article offers a view of more diverse and changing configurations of interaction, and suggests a shift in analytical emphasis to market exchange in the past in order to make comparisons between commercial and market-oriented societies.

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资本主义的框架和伊斯兰地中海糖的考古学

本文试图拓宽资本主义研究的历史范围，有助于对资本主义历史中的主导叙事和框架进行干预。它讨论了与作为标志性商品的伊斯兰文化地理和糖在欧洲资本主义和殖民主义历史中所扮演的角色相关的西方史学和历史主义。这种对糖的替代演绎汇集了中世纪和奥斯曼帝国时期埃及和叙利亚-巴勒斯坦糖生产的重要考古和历史来源。伊斯兰糖生产和市场与西方历史资本主义、全球商品、不平等交换和资本积累的框架有关。质疑现代性对历史和资本主义的构架，