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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.
Taxation and Coercion in the Islamic World during the Pre-Modern Period (7th–16th Centuries) – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog
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),
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: 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: 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.
New Publications on Ancient Fiscal History – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog
primarily and in the Islamic world to a lesser extent, between the sixth and the thirteenth centuries. ... village clans was the most important development in the history of the Middle Eastern countryside in the Islamic era.
Greek in Egyptian Eighth-Century Fiscal Documents – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog
Cambridge University Library. Image from the publication: Monastic Estates in Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt. ... Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2024. Sijpesteijn, P.M. “The Early Islamic Empire’s Policy of Multilingual Governance.”
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: 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: 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.