Format:
VIII, 260 Seiten.
ISBN:
978-2-503-54277-5
Series Statement:
The medieval countryside volume 18
Uniform Title:
Iẓhār ṣanʿat al-haiy al-qaiyūm fī tartīb bilād al-Faiyūm
Content:
Richly annotated and with a detailed introduction, this volume offers the first academic edition and translation of a first-hand account of the Egyptian countryside, offering a key insight into the rural economy of medieval Islam. Medieval Islamic society was overwhelmingly a society of peasants, and the achievements of Islamic civilization depended, first and foremost, on agricultural production. Yet the history of the medieval Islamic countryside has been neglected or marginalized. Basic questions such as the social and religious identities of village communities, or the relationship of the peasant to the state, are either ignored or discussed from a normative point of view. This volume addresses this lacuna in our understanding of medieval Islam by presenting a first-hand account of the Egyptian countryside. Dating from the middle of the thirteenth century, Abu-Uthman al-Nabulusi's Villages of the Fayyum is as close as we get to the tax registers of any rural province. Not unlike the Domesday Book of medieval England, al-Nabulusi?s work provides a wealth of detail for each village which far surpasses any other source for the rural economy of medieval Islam. It is a unique, comprehensive snap-shot of one rural society at one, significant, point in its history, and an insight into the way of life of the majority of the population in the medieval Islamic world.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis Seite [247]-251. - Der von an-Nābulūsī selbst verwendete Titel des Originals ist "Iẓhār ṣanʿat al-haiy al-qaiyūm fī tartīb bilād al-Faiyūm". 1899 wurde in Kairo eine Edition unter dem Titel "Tāriḫ al-Faiyūm wa-bilādih[i]" von Bernhard Moritz herausgegeben; unter diesem Titel wird das Werk in der wissenschaftlichen Literatur zitiert
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Einleitung englisch; Text arabisch und englisch
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-2-503-55996-4
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Steuerregister
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Quelle
Author information:
Nābulusī, ʿUṯmān Ibn-Ibrāhīm an- 1192-1262
Author information:
Rapoport, Yossef 1968-
