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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…
***This post was written by Georgi Obatnin, PhD student on the Caliphal Finances project. Hear more about Georgi’s work with digital tools in our first IMES Seminar Spring…
It was another eventful year for the Caliphal Finances project! In January this year, the Caliphal Finances team welcomed its latest addition: post-doc Eline Scheerlinck, Research Fellow in Coptic Papyrology, who is…
At the end of November, I, postdoc Eline Scheerlinck, embarked on a two-day research trip to Manchester to study a fascinating Coptic document on papyrus housed in the…
This series of interviews shines a spotlight on researchers working on or with the Caliphal Finances project. Each interview showcases the variety of scholarship that is connected to…
The Caliphal Finances project is organising a lecture series hosted by our own department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (IMES) at the University of Edinburgh, starting in…
On 13th and 14th November, the Caliphal Finances team had the immense pleasure of hosting Matthew Gordon, Emeritus Professor of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and Eugénie Rébillard, researcher…
*** The call for contributions is now closed. If you have any questions please write to caliphalfinances@ed.ac.uk. *** Exciting news! The Caliphal Finances project is inviting authors to contribute…
In my search for Coptic and Greek fiscal documents from Abbasid Egypt, I (Eline Scheerlinck) came across a curious ninth-century document from the monastery of Apa Apollo in…
The primary source material for the Caliphal Finances project consists of fiscal documents, excavated in Egypt and mostly written on papyrus and paper. Both Principal Investigator Marie Legendre…
