The Peasants Of The Fayyum

Author : Bethany J. Walker,Abdelkader Al Ghouz
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 759 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9783847011033

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Living with Nature and Things by Bethany J. Walker,Abdelkader Al Ghouz Pdf

This edited volume represents the research results of two international conferences organized and sponsored by the Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg: "Environmental Approaches in Pre-Modern Middle Eastern Studies" and "Material Culture Methods in the Middle Islamic Periods". The following work consists of three parts, which correspond to the themes of the aforementioned conferences (Contributions to Environmental History and Material Culture Studies) and a third which bridges the gap between the two approaches (Practice and Knowledge Transfer). The present contributions cover a wide range of such topics as urban pollution, local perceptions of weather, rural estate economy, Sufi understandings of nature and the body and mind, houses and socialization, text and gardens, local know-how and interdependence in medieval Syrian agriculture, crop selection and the medieval agricultural economy.

Author : Tsugitaka Sato
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004493186

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State and Rural Society in Medieval Islam by Tsugitaka Sato Pdf

This book deals with the evolution of Islamic state and society from the 10th to the 14th centuries, focusing on the history of the Arab society under the iqṭā‘ (allocated tax revenue) system. The book offers a well documented study of the system with its use of hitherto unpublished Arabic manuscripts. The introductory chapter deals with the historical origins of the iqṭā‘ system, while chapters that follow discuss the history of the system in Iraq, Syria and Egypt, including systematic studies on the rural life and peasantry in Egypt. State and Rural Society in Medieval Islam is the first thorough, book-length study to show how this system may explain various historical phenomena in medieval Islam. The iqṭā‘ system now can be seen as a system with a comprehensive life of its own.

Author : Petra Sijpesteijn
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Byzantium
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199673902

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Shaping a Muslim State by Petra Sijpesteijn Pdf

This volume provides a synthetic study of the political, social, and economic processes which formed early Islamic Egypt. Looking at a corpus of previously unknown Arabic papyrus letters, Sijpesteijn examines the reasons for the success of the early Arab conquests and the transition from the pre-Islamic Byzantine system to an Arab/Muslim state.

Author : Andrew Monson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107014411

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From the Ptolemies to the Romans by Andrew Monson Pdf

Compares how two different political regimes shaped the structure and performance of the agrarian economy in Egypt.

Author : Tsugitaka Satō
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780710305602

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Islamic Urbanism in Human History by Tsugitaka Satō Pdf

The contributors to this book examine the religious, social and administrative networks that governed both rural and urban areas in the North African and Middle Eastern parts of the world. This gives some idea of how power is allotted in the Islamic world.

Author : Tsugitaka SATO
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136169526

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Islamic Urbanism by Tsugitaka SATO Pdf

Islamic cultures in the Middle East have inherited and developed a legacy of urbanism spanning millennia to the ancient civilizations of the region. In contrast to well-organized states like China in history, Muslim peoples formed loose states based on intricate social networks. As a consequence, most studies of urban history in the Middle East have focused their gaze exclusively on urban social organization, often neglecting the extension of political power to rural areas. Covering Morocco, Egypt, Syria, Iran and Brunei, this volume explores the relationship between political power and social networks in medieval and modern Middle Eastern history. The authors examine social, religious and administrative networks that governed rural and urban areas and led to state formation, providing a more inclusive view of the mechanisms of power and control in the Islamic world.

Author : Pierre Montet
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 0812211138

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Everyday Life in Egypt in the Days of Ramesses The Great by Pierre Montet Pdf

A classic study of daily life in ancient Egypt, Everyday Life in Egypt in the Days of Ramesses the Great is the masterwork of the dean of modern Egyptologists, Pierre Montet. Renowned for its accuracy and scope, this book conveys the richness and complexity of ancient Egyptian life. The book focuses on the era of the great builders at Karnak and Luxor, the Ramesside kings (ca. 1314-1090 B.C.) and surveys both upper and lower Egypt to give a comprehensive picture of pharaonic society. Montet combines studies of monuments and tombs with data from pictorial and literary sources, including papyrus documents, to depict the experiences of royalty, priests, urban artisans and professionals, peasants and slaves. Here, too, are colorful descriptions of dwelling places, seasonal activities, holiday observances, family life, travel, justice, warfare, and the rites of burial—all enhanced by Montet's appreciation for the ancient Egyptian way of life.

Author : Josef Meri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1238 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351668132

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Routledge Revivals: Medieval Islamic Civilization (2006) by Josef Meri Pdf

Islamic civilization flourished in the Middle Ages across a vast geographical area that spans today's Middle and Near East. First published in 2006, Medieval Islamic Civilization examines the socio-cultural history of the regions where Islam took hold between the 7th and 16th centuries. This important two-volume work contains over 700 alphabetically arranged entries, contributed and signed by international scholars and experts in fields such as Arabic languages, Arabic literature, architecture, history of science, Islamic arts, Islamic studies, Middle Eastern studies, Near Eastern studies, politics, religion, Semitic studies, theology, and more. Entries also explore the importance of interfaith relations and the permeation of persons, ideas, and objects across geographical and intellectual boundaries between Europe and the Islamic world. This reference work provides an exhaustive and vivid portrait of Islamic civilization and brings together in one authoritative text all aspects of Islamic civilization during the Middle Ages. Accessible to scholars, students and non-specialists, this resource will be of great use in research and understanding of the roots of today's Islamic society as well as the rich and vivid culture of medieval Islamic civilization.

Author : Alan Mikhail
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226638881

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Under Osman's Tree by Alan Mikhail Pdf

Osman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, had a dream in which a tree sprouted from his navel. As the tree grew, its shade covered the earth; as Osman’s empire grew, it, too, covered the earth. This is the most widely accepted foundation myth of the longest-lasting empire in the history of Islam, and offers a telling clue to its unique legacy. Underlying every aspect of the Ottoman Empire’s epic history—from its founding around 1300 to its end in the twentieth century—is its successful management of natural resources. Under Osman’s Tree analyzes this rich environmental history to understand the most remarkable qualities of the Ottoman Empire—its longevity, politics, economy, and society. The early modern Middle East was the world’s most crucial zone of connection and interaction. Accordingly, the Ottoman Empire’s many varied environments affected and were affected by global trade, climate, and disease. From down in the mud of Egypt’s canals to up in the treetops of Anatolia, Alan Mikhail tackles major aspects of the Middle East’s environmental history: natural resource management, climate, human and animal labor, energy, water control, disease, and politics. He also points to some of the ways in which the region’s dominant religious tradition, Islam, has understood and related to the natural world. Marrying environmental and Ottoman history, Under Osman’s Tree offers a bold new interpretation of the past five hundred years of Middle Eastern history.

Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : World politics
ISBN : OSU:32435063987432

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Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts by United States. Central Intelligence Agency Pdf

Author : Johann P. Arnason,Armando Salvatore,Georg Stauth
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839404911

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Islam in Process by Johann P. Arnason,Armando Salvatore,Georg Stauth Pdf

The articles included in this Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam are focused on two perspectives: Some link the comparative analysis of Islam to ongoing debates on the Axial Age and its role in the formation of major civilizational complexes, while others are more concerned with the historical constellations and sources involved in the formation of Islam as a religion and a civilization. More than any other particular line of inquiry, new historical and sociological approaches to the Axial Age revived the idea of comparative civilizational analysis and channeled it into more specific projects. A closer look at the very problematic place of Islam in this context will help to clarify questions about the Axial version of civilizational theory as well as issues in Islamic studies and sociological approaches to modern Islam. Contributors among others: Said Arjomand, Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, Josef van Ess and Raif G. Khoury.

Author : Maha Ghalwash
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781649032782

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State, Peasants, and Land in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt by Maha Ghalwash Pdf

An alternative reading of the relationship between the state and smallholder peasants in mid-nineteenth-century Egypt This book examines the rural history of Egypt during the middle years of the nineteenth century, a period that is often glossed over, or altogether forgotten. Drawing on a wide array of archival sources, some only rarely utilized by other scholars, it argues that state policy targeting the peasant land tenure regime was informed by the dual economic principles of the Ottoman, or traditional, philosophy of statecraft, and that the workings of the relevant regulations did not produce extensive peasant land loss and impoverishment. Maha Ghalwash presents a rich, detailed analysis of such crucial issues as land legislation, tax impositions, the system of tax collection, modes of land acquisition, large-scale peasant abandonment of land, the emergence of surplus lands, the formation of large, privileged estates, distribution of village land, female land inheritance, and the nature of peasants’ political activity. In investigating these issues, she highlights peasant voices, experiences, and agential power. Traditional interpretations of the rural history of nineteenth-century Egypt generally specify an avaricious state, so indifferent to peasant well-being that it consistently developed harsh policies that led to unremitting, extensive peasant impoverishment. Through an examination of the relationship between the absolutist state and the majority of its subject population, the peasant smallholders, during 1848–63, this study shows that these ideas do not hold for the mid-century period. State, Peasants, and Land in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt will be of interest to students of Middle East history, especially Egyptian rural history, as well as those of peasant studies, subaltern studies, gender studies, and Ottoman rural history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120235234

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Mamlūk Studies Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marina Rustow
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691156477

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The Lost Archive by Marina Rustow Pdf

A compelling look at the Fatimid caliphate's robust culture of documentation The lost archive of the Fatimid caliphate (909–1171) survived in an unexpected place: the storage room, or geniza, of a synagogue in Cairo, recycled as scrap paper and deposited there by medieval Jews. Marina Rustow tells the story of this extraordinary find, inviting us to reconsider the longstanding but mistaken consensus that before 1500 the dynasties of the Islamic Middle East produced few documents, and preserved even fewer. Beginning with government documents before the Fatimids and paper’s westward spread across Asia, Rustow reveals a millennial tradition of state record keeping whose very continuities suggest the strength of Middle Eastern institutions, not their weakness. Tracing the complex routes by which Arabic documents made their way from Fatimid palace officials to Jewish scribes, the book provides a rare window onto a robust culture of documentation and archiving not only comparable to that of medieval Europe, but, in many cases, surpassing it. Above all, Rustow argues that the problem of archives in the medieval Middle East lies not with the region’s administrative culture, but with our failure to understand preindustrial documentary ecology. Illustrated with stunning examples from the Cairo Geniza, this compelling book advances our understanding of documents as physical artifacts, showing how the records of the Fatimid caliphate, once recovered, deciphered, and studied, can help change our thinking about the medieval Islamicate world and about premodern polities more broadly.

Author : Mary-Ellen Lane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Egypt
ISBN : UCSC:32106005568362

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A Guide to the Antiquities of the Fayyum by Mary-Ellen Lane Pdf

Like its companion volume The Fayoum- a practical guide, by Neil Hewison, this book was written for interested Egyptians and foreigners living in Cairo who enjoy day-trips at the weekend. A Guide to the Antiquities of the Fayyum deals specifically with the history and archaeology of the province, describing nineteen sites, their monuments and inscriptions, and the research work done on them. For each site a detailed itinerary from Cairo is given. Together, these two books form a unique quide to all aspects of the Fayyum which will interest the traveller.