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Research Visit in Paris – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2024/09/26/research-visit-in-paris/

After the BnF, it houses the second-largest collection of Arabic manuscripts, alongside a vast array of sources crucial for scholars in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. ... I also seized the opportunity to delve deeper into comparative perspectives

The Paperwork of Taxation: Abbasid Fiscal Documents from Egypt – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2024/06/17/fiscal-documents/

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2025-03-10 18.23.24 – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2025-03-10-18-23-24/

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Trouble with Taxation II – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2025/03/21/trouble-with-taxation-ii/

based SCORE (‘Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period’) respectively.

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

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

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: Marie Legendre – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2024/12/04/interview-with-a-researcher-marie-legendre/

on the early Islamic administration, a common interest among historians trained in papyrology. ... This is within a wider perception of Islamic states are simple or even informal entities.

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/

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.

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/

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.

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/

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.

Taxation and Coercion in the Islamic World during the Pre-Modern Period (7th–16th Centuries) – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2025/07/15/taxation-and-coercion-in-the-islamic-world-during-the-pre-modern-period-7th-16th-centuries/

Abstract of the Panel. Fiscal administration, and taxation in general, was a key aspect of governance as early as the first decades of the Islamic conquests. ... We will consider the Islamic empire in its entirety (from modern-day Afghanistan to Spain),