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A Historian At Work: Al-Maqrīzī and the Egyptian Fiscal Revolts in the Abbasid Period – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2025/08/25/a-historian-at-work-al-maqrizis-practices-with-the-material-about-the-egyptian-fiscal-revolts-in-the-abbasid-period/

Two unquestionably essential sources for any researcher interested in the history of Islamic Egypt are al-Kindī’s Kitāb al-Wulāt wa-Quḍāt and al-Maqrīzī’s Khiṭaṭ. ... Journal of Islamic Manuscripts. 2. 123-131. 10.1163/187846411X593445.

Produce, Record, Reuse. The Life Cycle of 8th-century Greek Accounting Documents – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2025/09/10/produce-record-reuse-the-life-cycle-of-8th-century-greek-accounting-documents/

protocol. A protocol text was written on the first sheet of a papyrus roll and in the late antique and Early Islamic periods contained information under whose authority and where the ... Leiden: Brill, 2007. Gonis, Nikolaos. “Reconsidering Some Fiscal

From Tax Arrears to Moral Governance: The Tale of Hārūn al-Rashīd and al-Fuḍayl b. ‘Iyād (Part 2) – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2024/09/09/from-tax-arrears-to-moral-governance-the-tale-of-harun-al-rashid-and-al-fu%e1%b8%8dayl-b-iyad-part-2/

El-Hibri, Tayeb. Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography, Harun al-Rashid and the Narrative of the Abbasid Caliphate. ... Princeton University Press, 1957. Tor, Deborah. “God’s Cleric: Fuḍayl b. ʿIyāḍ and the Transition from Caliphal to Prophetic

“The Many Lives of the Aberdeen Papyri from Egypt to Python”: a Lecture by the Caliphal Finances Team – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2025/01/21/the-many-lives-of-the-aberdeen-papyri-from-egypt-to-python-a-lecture-by-the-caliphal-finances-team/

Dr. Simon Loynes, our colleague in the Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies department, will present a talk titled: From Esoteric Communication to Verbatim Revelation: The Conspicuous Absence of the Root W-

Zoom1 – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2024/11/05/uncovering-fiscal-hierarchies-in-ninth-century-egypt-insights-from-papyrus-analysis/zoom1/

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Exploring Abbasid Narratives about Taxation: Highlights from the Sixteenth School of Abbasid Studies Conference – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2024/07/22/exploring-abbasid-narratives-about-taxation-highlights-from-the-sixteenth-school-of-abbasid-studies-conference/

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Zoom 2 – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2024/11/05/uncovering-fiscal-hierarchies-in-ninth-century-egypt-insights-from-papyrus-analysis/zoom-2/

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From Tax Arrears to Moral Governance: The Tale of Hārūn al-Rashīd and al-Fuḍayl b. ‘Iyād (Part 1) – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2024/09/02/from-tax-arrears-to-moral-governance-the-tale-of-harun-al-rashiid-and-al-fu%e1%b8%8dayl-b-iyad-part-1/

MSS 745.1–3 | Hajj certificate 17th–18th century AD. Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art (Khalili Family Trust) British Museum. ... I borrow the expression to Tayeb el-Hibri. The latter mentioned the relationship between Hārūn al-Rashīd

Regional and Caliphal Perceptions of the 168/784-785 Tax Revolt in the Eastern Delta – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2025/01/29/regional-and-caliphal-perceptions-of-the-168-784-785-tax-revolt-in-the-eastern-delta/

These contrasting narratives offer valuable insights into how regional and caliphal perspectives shaped historical accounts of fiscal revolts in early Islamic Egypt.

“Please Find Attached the List”: Insights in Early Abbasid Fiscal Administration from a Coptic Letter – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2024/08/15/please-find-attached-the-list-insights-in-early-abbasid-fiscal-administration-from-a-coptic-letter/

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