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August 2024 – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2024/08/

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Interview with a Researcher: Harry Munt – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2025/04/29/interview-with-a-researcher-harry-munt/

29 Apr 2025: It starts with a pre- islamic background and the time of the prophet Muhammad. ... The Islamic Empire starts in the Hijaz but then rapidly expands beyond that.

Stichoi, or the “Other” Taxes – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2024/10/30/stichoi/

30 Oct 2024: The seal itself has not been preserved. Stichoi: Part of Early Islamic Greek Fiscal Terminology.

June 2025 – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2025/06/

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Welcome! – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2024/05/20/welcome/

20 May 2024: Any views expressed within media held on this service are those of the contributors, should not be taken as approved or endorsed by the University, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the University in respect of any particular issue. Menu

November 2025 – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2025/11/

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Interview with a Researcher: Cecilia Palombo – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2025/03/24/interview-with-a-researcher-cecilia-palombo/

24 Mar 2025: methodologies. A third project concerns objects, narratives, and collections about early Islamic Constantinople (an oxymoron). ... And yet, everyone who studies the early Islamic period also inevitably talks about fiscal matters.

Lecture Series: “Egyptian Christianities” – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2025/10/13/lecture-series-egyptian-christianities/

13 Oct 2025: My lecture, Protecting Tax Evaders, Securing the Revenue: The Paradox of Local Governance in the Early Islamic Egyptian Countryside, will be addressing the themes and arguments of my PhD thesis on

Interview with a Researcher: Thomas Laver – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2025/10/21/coming-soon-interview-with-a-researcher-thomas-laver/

21 Oct 2025: the early Islamic period where firm answers are scarcer than in the Roman one. ... th. century has been argued to have caused distress and financial weakness to monasteries across the early Islamic world.

Interview with a Researcher: Lajos Berkes – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2025/06/17/interview-with-a-researcher-lajos-berkes/

17 Jun 2025: I am a papyrologist specializing in late Roman, Byzantine, and early Islamic Egypt (ca. ... That said, using papyri for historical research is not without challenges, especially in the case of early Islamic Egypt.