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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…
As part of my research on the Caliphal Finances project, I (PostDoc Noëmie Lucas) am studying tax revolts that occurred repeatedly in Egypt from the Marwanid period to…
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 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…
***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…
Last week, we had the pleasure of welcoming Matthew Gordon and Eugénie Rébillard for an informal gathering to discuss the agents of fiscal administration and the Egyptian economy…