Histories of the Middle East
Subtitle: studies in Middle Eastern society, economy and law in honor of A.L. Udovitch
By: edited by Roxani Eleni Margariti, Adam Sabra, Petra M. Sijpesteijn
Contributors: Udovitch, Abraham L.
Series: Islamic history and civilization -- v. 79
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004184275
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "There are 'ulama', and then there are 'ulama" : minor religious institutions and minor religious functionaries in medieval Cairo / Jonathan P. Berkey; title: The Arabian silent trade : profit and nobility in the "markets of the 'Arabs'" / Michael Bonner; title: Ringing church bells in Afsid Tunis : religious concessions to Christian fondacos in the later thirteenth century / Olivia Remie Constable; title: An overview of the slaves' juridical status at sea in Romano-Byzantine, and Islamic laws / Hassan S. Khalilieh; title: Maritime cityscapes : lessons from real and imagined topographies of western Indian Ocean ports / Roxani Eleni Margariti; title: Demonizing zenobia : the legend of al-Zabba" in Islamic sources / David S. Powers; title: The view from the south : the maps of the book of curiosities and the commercial revolution of the eleventh century / Yossef Rapoport; title: From artisan to courtier : sufism and social mobility in fifteenth-century Egypt / Adam Sabra; title: Mini-dramas by the water : on irrigation rights and disputes in fifteenth-century Damascus / Boaz Shoshan; title: Army economics : an early papyrus letter related to 'ata' payments / Petra M. Sijpesteijn.