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This project examines the fiscal history of the Abbasid dynasty by analyzing papyrus documents from Egypt. It aims to understand tax collection and local governance, providing a grassroots perspective on state administration during a pivotal period in Islamic history.
This project offers an ambitious new account of a seminal period in Islamic history.
It will for the first time provide a view from below on Abbasid fiscal history through a study of papyrus documents in Greek, Coptic and Arabic written in Egypt, a field in which the PI is a leading scholar.
The Abbasids were the second longest ruling dynasty in Islamic history (750-1258).
The first centuries of their rise to power are of key importance for the history of Islam, as the earliest surviving liter…
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