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Month: June 2025

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….

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