The Islamic Middle East,700-1900: Studies in Economic and Social History

Contents
List of Contributors
Preface
A Note on Transliteration and Orthography
Introduction—Technology, Land Tenure, and Rural Society: Aspects of Continuity in the Agricultural History of the Pre-Modern Middle East
Part I: Land and Society in the Middle Ages
	1. A Medieval Green Revolution: New Crops and Farming Techniques in the Early Islamic World
	2. Some Technical Aspects of Agriculture In Medieval Egypt
	3. Levantine Sugar Industry in the Late Middle Ages: A Case of Technological Decline
	4. Landholding in Seventh-Century Iraq: Late Sasanian and Early Islamic Patterns
	5. Arab Settlement and Economic Development of Iraq and Iran in the Age of the Umayyad and Early Abbasid Caliphs
	6. Law and Economy in Ifriqiya (Tunisia) in the Third Islamic Century: Agriculture and the Role of Slaves in the Country’s Economy
	7. Socioeconomic Structure and Continuity: Medieval Spanish Islam in the Tax Records of Crusader Valencia
	8. Reflections on the Role of Agriculture in Medieval Persia
	9. Monetary Circulation in Egypt at the Time of the Crusades and the Reform of Al-Kamil
	10. Strategic Implications of the Slave Trade between Genoa and Mamluk Egypt in the Second Half of the Thirteenth Century
Part II: Historical Demography
	11. Archival Sources for Demographic Studies of the Middle East
	12. The Area and Population of the Arab Empire: An Essay In Speculation
	13. The General Mortality of the Black Death in the Mamluk Empire
	14. Birth Control and Middle Eastern History:
Part III: Land Tenure and Taxation in the Pre-Modern Middle East
	15. An Economic Model for Ottoman Egypt: The Economics of Collective Tax Responsibility
	16. The Development of Agricultural Production in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: Capitalism of What Type?
	17. The Beginnings of Commercialized Agriculture in Iran
Part IV: Society and Economy in the Pre-Modern Middle East
	18. Village and City in Egypt and Syria: 1500-1914
	19. Economic Relations between Damascus and the Dependent Countryside, 1743-71
	20. The Economic Crisis of Egypt in the Eighteenth Century
	21. The Tunisian Fellaheen in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
	22. Merchants and Artisans and the Developmental Processes of Nineteenth-Century Iran
	23. The Western Presence in the Arab Middle East at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
	24. Socioeconomic Change in the Middle East since 1800: A Comparative Analysis
Index