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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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
