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Abbasid-Era Fiscal Documents: A Workshop of the Caliphal Finances project

From the 30th of April to the 2nd of May, the Caliphal Finances team hosted a workshop dedicated to the analysis of Abbasid-Era fiscal documents at the University…

Recap of the Spring IMES Seminar, ‘Taxes, Taxes, Taxes’

From January to March 2025, the Caliphal Finances project organised the lecture series of the IMES department at the University of Edinburgh. The theme of the series was…

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,…

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,…

People and Money in Abbasid Egypt: A Deeper Dive into the Caliphal Finances Team’s Research

On 25th February, the Caliphal Finances team offered their second lecture in the IMES Seminar Spring 2025 Lecture Series. Noëmie Lucas and Dalia Hussein shared their respective research…

Muhammad and Ghengis Khan 30 years later: The Fiscal Factor in World Empire Building

On 10 February, our colleague Nik Matheou, Lecturer in Medieval Global History at the University of Edinburgh, honoured us by participating in the IMES Seminar Spring 2025 Lecture…

“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…

Lecture Series – IMES Seminar Spring 2025 – ‘Taxes, taxes, taxes. All the rest is bulls*it in my opinion’

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…

Be Our Guest: Matthew Gordon and Eugénie Rébillard Visit the Caliphal Finances Project

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…

Call for Contributions is Closed! Handbook of Fiscal History in the Early Islamic World (7th-10th century)

*** 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…

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