Land and Trade in Early Islam: The Economy of the Islamic Middle East 750-1050 CE

Preface
Contents
List of Maps
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List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Transcription and Dates
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PART I. ECONOMIC EXCEPTIONALISM IN EARLY ISLAM: MYTH OR REALITY?
	1. The Late Antique and Byzantine Context to Early Islamic Mercantile Activity • Peter Sarris
	2. The Islamic Agricultural Revolution: Myths and Realities • Michael Decker
PART II. POLITICS OF INVESTMENT
	3. Introduction: Towards a Model of the Early Islamic Economy • Hugh Kennedy
	A. Caliphal Initiatives
		4. Caliphs, the Economy, and Political Separatism in the Ḥijāz • Harry Munt
		5. Power and Money on the Ḥajj: Connections between Caliphate and Pilgrimage in Early Islam • Peter Webb
		6. Early Islamic Water Management in Northern Mesopotamia • Louise Rayne
		7. Landholding, Investment, and Irrigation in Lower Iraq during the First Two Centuries of Islam: Assessing the Role of the Islamic State • Noëmie Lucas
		8. Dynamics of Agricultural Investment in al-Ahwaz in the Early Islamic Period • Mehrnoush Soroush
		9. A Tale of Two Services: The Khums and the Matjar, Two Fatimid Public Services to Control the Maritime Trade • David Bramoul
	B. Economic Initiatives from Religious Communities
		10. The Imams as Economic Actors: Early Imami Shiʿism as a ‘Sacred Economy’ • Edmund Hayes
		11. Silent Partners: Christians in the Economy of Early Islamic Palestine • Daniel Reynolds
PART III. LOCAL AND REGIONAL TRADING IDENTITIES FROM THE MAGHREB TO THE INDIAN OCEAN
	12. Introduction: Trade in the Polycentric ʿAbbāsid Caliphate • Fanny Bessard
	13. The Ibā: dī Trading Communities of the Maghreb (Eighth to Eleventh Centuries) • Cyrille Aillet
	14. Baḥr al-Ḥijāz: Muslim Expansionism and the Formation of an Arabian Mercantile Complex in the Red Sea (Seventh to Ninth Centuries) • Kristoffer Damgaard
	15. Ivory and Rock Crystal Trade in East Africa, Eighth to Twelfth Centuries • Stéphane Pradines
	16. The Middle East as Seen by the Arab Geographers (Ninth to Tenth Centuries): A Multipolar Urban Network • Jean-Charles Ducène
	17. North-Eastern Mesopotamia as an Economic Area from an Archaeological Perspective • Karel Nováček
	18. Infrastructures and Organization of the Early Islamic Slave Trade with Northern Europe • Marek Jankowiak
	19. The Politics of Trade: Merchants, Mujāhids, and Strangers in Early ʿAbbāsid Armenia • Alison Vacca
	20. The Islamic Trade Network in the Indian Ocean (Ninth to Eleventh Centuries): Locations and Practices • Jean-Charles Ducène
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