In March 2023, part of our team traveled to Egypt to participate in the Ninth international Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP) Conference, held at Fayyum University from March 6 to March 9. Our PI Marie Legendre, who was part of the Board of Directors (and is now President of ISAP) and Dalia Hussein presented a joint paper entitled “The taxation and ownership of land in the Abbasid countryside: simple questions?” in the panel devoted to Taxes chaired by Yossi Rapoport. To see the complete programme: Click Here

(credit: Fayyum University)

In September, we teamed up with SCORE, ‘Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period’, with the generous support of Balzan Seminar on the Formation, Maintenance, and Failure of States in the Muslim World before 1800’, directed by Michael Cook from Princeton University, Antoine Borrut from the University of Maryland, and Marie Legendre to organise a workshop at the University of Edinburgh devoted to : The Trouble with Taxation: Tax Revolts and Discourses against Fiscal Policies. To find more about it: Read here

Our PI, Marie Legendre, who is the co-director of the Balzan Seminar on the Formation, Maintenance, and Failure of States in the Muslim World before 1800 with Michael Cook and Antoine Borrut, participated in two seminars in 2023. The first took place at Leiden University in January 2023, and the second was held in Italy in June 2023. The aim of this Seminar, to quote M. Cook’s project description, is to “examine the respective roles of Islamic and non-Islamic values in the process over time and space, together with the roles of more material resources and obstacles, and the interactions between all these elements.”

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