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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,…

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…

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…

Interview with a Researcher: Matthew Gordon

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…

Using Digital Tools to Study Medieval Taxation

***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…

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