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 project Caliphal Finances an online presence. Since then, we’ve published over 50 posts, documenting the activities and research of the team.
CPR XXI 40: an Arabic tax receipt (al-Fayyum, 833 CE), currently at the Austrian National Library in Vienna.
This year, we’ve shared 18 “Spotlights,” reflecting on ongoing research themes, and 22 “News” posts about events we’ve organised or participated in. We’re also proud of our 7 “Interviews with a Researcher,” highlighting the scholars and their work connected to our project.
You can read about events such as the IMES seminar “Taxes, taxes, taxes”, and our presentations, as well as our first project event last month, a workshop on Abbasid fiscal papyri. You’ll also find more information about other events, like our focused workshops with specialist guests.
Noëmie, Marie, and Dalia with guests Matthew Gordon and Eugénie Rébillard
In addition, the website has dedicated pages on the project, the team, and resources on fiscal history. On our homepage, we provide links to related websites you might find interesting, under “Related Content”. And if you know of sites we should link to, don’t hesitate to let us know!
Over the past 12 months, about 1,000 people have visited the website, with many from the UK, US, Germany, France, Egypt, Turkey, and the Netherlands.
To celebrate our year online, we invite you to contribute with posts on taxation and history. If you have a topic you’d like to share on the blog, reach out to us at caliphalfinances@ed.ac.uk!
Noëmie and Eline
Banner image: Décoration du feu d’artifice et de l’illumination de la place de Louis XV, à l’occasion de la paix, et la dédicace de la statue équestre du Roy le 22 juin 1763. ark:/12148/btv1b8409645h; Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Estampes et photographie, RESERVE QB-201 (105)-FOL.
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