Caliphs and merchants : cities and economies of power in the Near East (700-950)

1. Verfasser: Bessard, Fanny , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Umfang/Format: xxii, 360 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
xxii, 360 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps, plans ; 24 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Oxford studies in Byzantium
ISBN: 978-0-19-885582-8
Schlagworte:
Islamic cities and towns > Middle East > History > To 1500.
Caliphs > Economic conditions.
Urban economics
Islamic Empire > History > 750-1258
Middle East > Economic conditions
Inhaltsangabe:
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Notes on Transcription and Dates
  • Maps
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: The Historical Context
  • 1. Conquests
  • 2. Ideology
  • 3. Agriculture
  • 4. Trade
  • Part I: Patronage and Power
  • Chapter 2: A Stamp of Authority
  • 1. A Caliphal Officium
  • 2. Sowing and Reaping
  • 3. Exercise and Assertion of Power
  • Chapter 3: New Perspectives on Urban Economic Planning
  • 1. Growth of Communal Working Areas in the Levant (700-50)
  • 2. Process of Exclusion of Economic Clusters Under Early 'Abbāsid Rule
  • 3. Rabaḍ in Central Asia
  • 4. Isolation of Domesticity
  • 4.1 Productive and public use to domestic shelter
  • 4.2 An emphasis on intimacy
  • Conclusion to Part I
  • Part II: Revisiting the Legacies
  • Chapter 4: Artisans to Producers
  • 1. The Progression of Change
  • 1.1 Persistence of Roman practices after 700
  • 1.2 Downfall of 'home' production after 800
  • 2. Approaches to Key Industries
  • 2.1 Pottery
  • 2.2 Glassmaking
  • 2.3 Textile industry
  • 3. Food Processing Industries
  • 3.1 Oil and wine industries
  • 3.2 Watermills
  • Chapter 5: Reshaping Marketplaces
  • 1. From the ergastērion to the Sūq
  • 2. Covered MarketPlaces
  • 2.1 Funduq
  • 2.2 Dār, ẖān, and qaysāriyya
  • Conclusion to Part II
  • Part III: Institutional and Religious Generators
  • Chapter 6: Money Supply and Currency
  • 1. Out with the Old . . .
  • 2. Coinage in Common
  • 3. Balancing Supply and Demand
  • Chapter 7: Islamifying the Economy
  • 1. Commercial Rituals and Islamic Worship
  • 2. Mosques and Measures
  • 3. The Muḥtasib
  • Conclusion to Part III
  • Part IV: Economy and Social Changes
  • Chapter 8: The Evolution of Labour Patterns
  • 1. Conditions of Labour
  • 1.1 Servile labour
  • 1.2 Free labour
  • 1.3 Wage labour
  • 2. Changing Patterns of Institutional Identity
  • 3. Status and Composition of the Labour Force
  • 3.1 Disdained and tolerated professions
  • 3.2 Changing division of labour
  • 3.3 Female artisans
  • Chapter 9: Twilight of the Clerical and Landowning Elite, Rise of Tuggār
  • 1. Retailers and Traders Before 800
  • 2. Ascendance of Tuggār from 800
  • 2.1 Financial
  • 2.2 Identity
  • 2.3 Cultural
  • 3. Tuggār's Political and Religious Careers
  • 4. Tuggār and Authority
  • 4.1 The defence of trading interests
  • 4.2 Tuggār and economic expansion
  • Conclusion to Part IV
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • References
  • Index

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