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Author Silverstein, Adam J.

Title Postal systems in the pre-modern Islamic world / Adam J. Silverstein.

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 214 pages) : maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Cambridge studies in Islamic civilisation
Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-208) and index.
Summary "Adam Silverstein's book offers an account of the official methods of communication employed in the Near East from pre-Islamic times through the Mamluk period. Postal systems were set up by rulers in order to maintain control over vast tracts of land. These systems, invented centuries before steam-engines or cars, enabled the swift circulation of different commodities - from letters, people and horses to exotic fruits and ice. As the correspondence transported often included confidential reports from a ruler's provinces, such postal systems doubled as espionage-networks through which news reached the central authorities quickly enough to allow a timely reaction to events. The book sheds light not only on the role of communications technology in Islamic history, but also on how nomadic culture contributed to empire-building in the Near East. This is a contribution to the history of pre-modern communications systems in the Near Eastern world."
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Postal service -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500.
Postal service.
Middle East.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Communication -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500.
Communication.
Islamic civilization.
Islamic civilization.
Middle East -- Civilization.
Civilization.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Silverstein, Adam J. Postal systems in the pre-modern Islamic world. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007 9780521858687 (DLC) 2007281390 (OCoLC)122283291
ISBN 0511289693 (electronic book)
9780511289699 (electronic book)
9780511290299 (electronic book)
0511290292 (electronic book)
0521858682 (hardback)
9780521858687 (hardback)
0511289057
9780511289057

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