Caliphs and Merchants: Cities and Economies of Power in the Near East (700-950)
- Submitting institution
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University of Oxford
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 15231
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198855828
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Caliphs and Merchants offers the first in-depth examination of the evolution of Near Eastern cities and their economies after the rise of Islam. Combining detailed analysis of Arabic literary sources, unpublished archives from Syria and Jordan, as well as archaeological evidence from the author's own excavations in the Near East and Central Asia, it provides a significant new interpretation of the interplay between caliphs, merchants, and the religious authorities from 700 to 950. This study is the result of a lengthy period of research and utilizes a comparative approach setting the early Islamic urban economies in a Eurasian context.
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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