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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….

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…

The Zygostatēs: Fiscal Duties in Abbasid Egypt

In a previous post, team members Noëmie Lucas and Dalia Hussein discussed the various roles involved in the fiscal administration hierarchy of Abbasid Egypt. Using a range of…

Accounting Practices in the Multilingual Administration of the Abbasid Era

On 10th March, the Caliphal Finances team delivered another lecture in their lecture series “Taxes taxes taxes. All the rest is bullshit in my opinion”. PI Marie Legendre,…

Interview with a Researcher: Cecilia Palombo

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 project’s…

Trouble with Taxation II

The ERC funding allows us to actively collaborate with national and international colleagues and to cross-pollinate our ideas at academic events. On the 3rd and 4th of March,…

Interview with a Researcher: Rebecca Darley

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 project’s…

Research Visit: Arabic and Coptic Papyri in the Special Collections of the University of Aberdeen

On 11th December last year, PI Marie Legendre and I, postdoc Eline Scheerlinck, left before sunrise for a three-hour train journey north to the Sir Duncan Rice Library…

Interview with a Researcher: Nik Matheou

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 project’s…

“The Many Lives of the Aberdeen Papyri from Egypt to Python”: a Lecture by the Caliphal Finances Team

On 13th January, the Caliphal Finances team kicked off the IMES Seminar Spring 2025 Lecture Series! PI Marie Legendre, Postdoc Eline Scheerlinck, and PhD student Georgi Obatnin offered…

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