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Coins and Consequences: A LAMPS Seminar by Georgi Obatnin

On Tuesday, the 30th of September, I attended the first seminar of the 2025/2026 LAMPS Seminar Series, entitled “Coins and Consequences: The Impact of Monetised Taxation on Medieval…

The Caliphal Finances Team at the Deutscher Orientalistentag 2025

Today marks the last day of the 35th Deutscher Orientalistentag, which this year took place in Erlangen and was organised by the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. This yearly week-long conference…

Abbasid Fiscal Documents at the 31st International Congress of Papyrologists

The Caliphal Finances Team organised a panel at a major academic event for scholars studying papyri, a conference organised every three years by the Association Internationale de Papyrologues…

Taxation and Coercion in the Islamic World during the Pre-Modern Period (7th–16th Centuries)

From the 24th to the 27th of June, the French Research Consortium “Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies” hold his sixth Congress at the University of Strasbourg. In this…

Writing Numbers in the Islamicate World – A Roundtable

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…

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…

Research Visit: The John Rylands Library in Manchester

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…

Research Visit in Paris

Recently, our postdoctoral researcher, Noëmie Lucas, spent a few days in Paris for research, visiting the BULAC library and meeting with colleagues. Every researcher knows how isolating research…

Research Visit: the Papyrological Institute at Leiden University

Recently, our postdoctoral researcher Eline Scheerlinck dedicated a week to research at the library of the Papyrological Institute at Leiden University in the Netherlands. One of the primary…

Exploring Abbasid Narratives about Taxation: Highlights from the Sixteenth School of Abbasid Studies Conference

The sixteenth Conference of the School of Abbasid Studies (SAS) took place in Venice from July 9th to 13th. I (Noëmie Lucas) was among the participants. I presented…

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