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almahu_9949703231702882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004214736
Series Statement:
Brill eBook titles 2011
Content:
For four decades Abraham L. Udovitch has been a leading scholar of the medieval Islamic world, its economic institutions, social structures, and legal theory and practice. In pursuing his quest to understand and explain the complex phenomena that these broad rubrics entail, he has published widely, collaborated internationally with other leading scholars of the Middle East and medieval history, and most saliently for the purposes of this volume, taught several cohorts of students at Princeton University. This volume is therefore dedicated to his intellectual legacy from a uniquely revealing angle: the current work of his former students. The papers in this volume range chronologically from the period preceding the rise of Islam in Arabia to the Mamluk era, geographically from the Western Mediterranean to the Western Indian Ocean and thematically from the political negotiations of Christian and Islamic Mediterranean sovereigns to the historiography of Western Indian Ocean port cities.
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Preliminary Material /
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1. Introduction /
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2. "There Are 'ulamā', and Then There Are 'ulamā' ": MinorReligious Institutions And Minor Religious Functionariesin Medieval Cairo /
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3. The Arabian Silent Trade: Profit And Nobility In The "Markets Of The Arabs" /
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4. Ringing Bells In Ḥafṣid Tunis: Religious Concessions Tochristian Fondacos In The Later Thirteenth Century /
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5. An Overview Of The Slaves' Juridical Status At Sea Inromano-Byzantine, And Islamic Laws /
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6. Maritime Cityscapes: Lessons From Real And Imaginedtopo Graphies Of Western Indian Ocean Ports /
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7. Demonizing Zenobia: The Legend of al-Zabbā' In Islamic Sources /
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8. The View From The South: The Maps Of The Book Of Curiosities And The Commercial Revolution Of The Eleventh Century /
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9. From Artisan To Courtier: Sufism And Social Mobility In Fifteenth-Century Egypt /
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10. Mini-Dramas By The Water: On Irrigation Rights And Disputes In Fifteenth-Century Damascus /
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11. Army Economics: An Early Papyrus Letter Related to 'Aā'Payments /
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Index /
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Illustrations /
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004184275 (hardback : alk. paper)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9004184279 (hardback : alk. paper)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004214736 (electronic book)
Language:
English
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