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…
On Tuesday, the 30th of September, I attended the first seminar of the 2025/2026 LAMPS Seminar Series, entitled “Coins and Consequences: The Impact of Monetised Taxation on Medieval…
A document as visually striking as it is fascinating for those of us interested in the (fiscal) administration of eighth-century Egypt, our document of the week certainly deserves…
This week, we introduce a new category called “Tax Files.” In these posts, we will share documents we are working on or have found particularly useful in our…
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….
Today marks the last day of the 35th Deutscher Orientalistentag, which this year took place in Erlangen and was organised by the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. This yearly week-long conference…
A large part of the corpus of the Caliphal Finances project’s research consists of papyri from Egypt, mainly tax receipts and accounts. These papyri can be seen as…
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. al-Kindī and al-Maqrīzī Al-Kindī, or Abū…
The Caliphal Finances Team organised a panel at a major academic event for scholars studying papyri, a conference organised every three years by the Association Internationale de Papyrologues…
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….
*** 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…
