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Title Histories of the Middle East : Studies in Middle Eastern Society, Economy and Law in Honor of A.L. Udovitch / Edited by Roxani Eleni Margariti, Adam Sabra, Petra M. Sijpesteijn.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 278 pages) : illustrations (some color), map.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Islamic history and civilization : studies and texts ; v. 79
Islamic history and civilization ; v. 79.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents "There are 'ulama', and then there are 'ulama" : minor religious institutions and minor religious functionaries in medieval Cairo / Jonathan P. Berkey -- The Arabian silent trade : profit and nobility in the "markets of the 'Arabs'" / Michael Bonner -- Ringing church bells in Hafsid Tunis : religious concessions to Christian fondacos in the later thirteenth century / Olivia Remie Constable -- An overview of the slaves' juridical status at sea in Romano-Byzantine, and Islamic laws / Hassan S. Khalilieh -- Maritime cityscapes : lessons from real and imagined topographies of western Indian Ocean ports / Roxani Eleni Margariti -- Demonizing zenobia : the legend of al-Zabba" in Islamic sources / David S. Powers -- The view from the south : the maps of the book of curiosities and the commercial revolution of the eleventh century / Yossef Rapoport -- From artisan to courtier : sufism and social mobility in fifteenth-century Egypt / Adam Sabra -- Mini-dramas by the water : on irrigation rights and disputes in fifteenth-century Damascus / Boaz Shoshan -- Army economics : an early papyrus letter related to 'ata' payments / Petra M. Sijpesteijn.
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Subject Middle East -- Civilization.
Middle East.
Civilization.
Civilization, Arab.
Civilization, Arab.
Islamic civilization.
Islamic civilization.
Civilization, Medieval.
Civilization, Medieval.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Festschriften.
Festschriften.
Added Author Margariti, Roxani Eleni, 1969-
Sabra, Adam Abdelhamid, 1968-
Sijpesteijn, Petra.
Udovitch, Abraham L.
Other Form: Print version: Histories of the Middle East. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011 9789004184275 (DLC) 2010037331 (OCoLC)659246753
ISBN 9789004214736 (electronic book)
9004214739 (electronic book)
9789004184275
9004184279