Wandering Days
Two Sources in Poetry on the Abbasid Reforms of the Fiscal Schedule
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9085343 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Massimiliano Borroni (0000-0003-2559-3917, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice Italy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 455-481 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4995 • E-ISSN: 1568-5209 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15685209-12341543 |
| OpenAlex | W3170995311 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
A close reading of two poetical sources provides new data on the reforms of the fiscal schedule of the Abbasid state in the ninth century. This paper reconstructs the calendrical complications in those Abbasid regions that followed Iranian administrative tradition and its solar calendar without intercalations. Two reforms were issued under al-Mutawakkil and al-Muʿtaḍid to correct the fiscal schedule of these regions. A panegyric by al-Buḥturī allows us to confirm and contextualize al-Mutawakkil’s reform in the final years of his caliphate. A few verses by Ibn al-Muʿtazz give a significant description of the close connection between al-Muʿtaḍid’s reform of the Iranian New-Year’s day and the construction of his public figure
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Caliphate · Connection (principal bundle) · Economics · Islam · Literature · Ninth · Panegyric · Poetry · Schedule · State (computer science) · Archaeology and Historical Studies · History · Islamic Finance and Banking Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Mathematics
The Feeding of the five Hundred Thousand
Culture, Education and the Court
Crisis and Continuity at the Abbasid Court
The Buwayhid Dynasty in Iraq 334H./945 to 403H./1012
Notes on a Private Library in Fourth/Tenth-Century Baghdad
Singing Samarra (861-956)
Ibn al-Mutazz and Politics
Islamic Taxation in the Classic Period, with Special Reference to Circumstances in Iraq
Islam
Reinterpreting al-Buhturī's Īwān Kisrā Ode
Al-Buhturi's Poetics of Persian Abodes
The Persian Calendar
Al-Mutawakkil's Damascus
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |