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The Caliphal Finances Blog Turns 1!

Today, we’re celebrating the first birthday of the Caliphal Finances blog! A year ago, we, postdocs Noëmie Lucas and Eline Scheerlinck, launched this website to give the ERC…

Welcome!

Welcome to the website of the Caliphal Finances project! This website is the online space of the Caliphal Finances project to share upcoming events, collaborations and conversations with…

Interview with a Researcher: Stefanie Schmidt

This series of interviews shines a spotlight on researchers working on or with the Caliphal Finances project. Each interview showcases the variety of scholarship connected to our research….

Tax History and History through Tax

*** By Alasdair Grant (Universität Hamburg) *** Let’s begin this post by thinking about what sort of role taxation plays in our lives today. Firstly, tax is something…

Taxation and Coercion in the Islamic World during the Pre-Modern Period (7th–16th Centuries)

From the 24th to the 27th of June, the French Research Consortium “Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies” hold his sixth Congress at the University of Strasbourg. In this…

Writing Numbers in the Islamicate World – A Roundtable

A few weeks ago, a hybrid workshop took place between Princeton and Edinburgh, organized by the ‘Balzan Seminar on the Formation, Maintenance, and Failure of States in the…

A Blind Spot on the Leadership of the Fiscal Administration in Egypt in the Second Half of the Ninth Century

As part of my investigation into the heads of the fiscal administration in Abbasid Egypt, I (Postdoc Noëmie Lucas) am trying to establish a complete list of the…

Interview with a Researcher: Lajos Berkes

This series of interviews shines a spotlight on researchers working on or with the Caliphal Finances project. Each interview showcases the variety of scholarship connected to our research….

The Land and the Peasants between History and Fiction: al-Arḍ by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sharqāwī

***This post was written by Dr Dalia Hussein, a member of the Caliphal Finances team.*** The study of lands, agriculture and irrigation goes hand in hand with that…

Interview with a Researcher: Khaled Younes

This series of interviews shines a spotlight on researchers working on or with the Caliphal Finances project. Each interview showcases the variety of scholarship connected to our research….

A Selection of Fiscal Posts Out There

In this blog post, we offer some reading recommendations selected from our Related Content section. Have a look and enjoy! Papyrus Stories: Everyday Stories from the Ancient Past…

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