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Recap of the Spring IMES Seminar, ‘Taxes, Taxes, Taxes’ – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2025/05/07/recap-of-the-spring-imes-seminar-taxes-taxes-taxes/

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Research Visit: the Papyrological Institute at Leiden University – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2024/08/23/research-visit-the-papyrological-institute-at-leiden-university/

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Research Visit: Coptic Papyri at Cambridge University Library – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2024/06/22/research-visit-coptic-papyri-at-cambridge-university-library/

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The Caliphal Finances Team at the Deutscher Orientalistentag 2025 – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2025/09/12/the-caliphal-finances-team-at-the-deutscher-orientalistentag-2025/

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Highlights of 2022: Key Moments with the Caliphal Finances Team – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2024/06/04/highlights-of-2022-key-moments-with-the-caliphal-finances-team/

Finally, in December 2022, Marie Legendre and Dalia Hussein attended the conference “A Hard Row to Hoe: Landowning and Land Management in the Medieval Islamic World (622-1250 CE)“ organized in

Fiscal Revolts in Egypt as Crisis Response: Insights from an IMC Panel at Leeds – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2024/07/15/fiscal-revolts-in-egypt-as-crisis-response-insights-from-the-imc-panel/

This interdisciplinary approach focused on the early Islamic world and its neighboring Christian societies, roughly from 600 to 1100 CE. ... Alon Dar (Hamburg University): “Rebellion and Regime Change in the Early Islamic Empire, 650-800: Provincial

The Caliphal Finances Project is Hiring a Postdoctoral Research Fellow! – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2025/11/19/the-caliphal-finances-project-is-hiring-a-postdoctoral-research-fellow/

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Lecture Series – IMES Seminar Spring 2025 – ‘Taxes, taxes, taxes. All the rest is bulls*it in my opinion’ – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2024/11/27/lecture-series-imes-seminar-spring-2025-taxes-taxes-taxes-all-the-rest-is-bullsit-in-my-opinion/

The Caliphal Finances project is organising a lecture series hosted by our own department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (IMES) at the University of Edinburgh, starting in January 2025. ... This series is co-organised by the Edinburgh Centre for

Muhammad and Ghengis Khan 30 years later: The Fiscal Factor in World Empire Building – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2025/03/05/muhammad-and-ghengis-khan-30-years-later-the-fiscal-factor-in-world-empire-building/

chorion in early Islamic Egypt) and of a capitation tax paid in cash. ... th. century is a window into the negotiations within the new system that echoes the revolts punctuating the first centuries of Islamic rule.

Abbasid-Era Fiscal Documents: A Workshop of the Caliphal Finances project – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2025/05/13/abbasid-era-fiscal-documents-a-workshop-of-the-caliphal-finances-project/

In her work, she explores the role and functions of this ʿāmil, helping us better understand the history of Islamic rule in the region of Aswan, which will also be part