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Lecture Series: “Egyptian Christianities” – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog
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
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
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.
2025-03-10 18.23.24 – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog
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Trouble with Taxation II – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog
based SCORE (‘Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period’) respectively.
Interview with a Researcher: Matthew Gordon – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog
I remain committed, as well, to the study of slavery as a central social and economic feature of Middle Eastern history in the early Islamic period. ... How are you approaching these topics? In your opinion, what is a key argument or prevailing
Interview with a Researcher: Stefanie Schmidt – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog
In this interview, she shares her current projects as well as her methodological approaches and views on Islamic fiscal history. ... the First Cataract Region Archeological Finds and Textual Evidence from the Roman to the Islamic Periods, Berlin:
Interview with a Researcher: Hannah-Lena Hagemann – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog
I received my first degree in Islamic Studies (and two minors, Religious Studies and Political Science) in 2010. ... and how these relate to the various regions and constituencies within the early Islamic Empire.
The Caliphal Finances Team at the Late Antique Lunch – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog
Among these collaborative projects, the Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies (JLAIBS) is undoubtedly a great achievement. ... JLAIBS is the first journal devoted exclusively to Late Antique, Islamic , and Byzantine studies not just in
Interview with a Researcher: Alasdair Grant – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog
In your opinion, what is a key argument or prevailing assumption in Islamic fiscal history that needs to be challenged? ... Wales, we might stop taking the very existence of the early Islamic fiscal system for granted, let alone its complexity.