Rural Administration, Tax-Farming, and the mutadarriks in Egypt from the Late 14th to the Early 16th Centuries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9085877 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daisuke Igarashi (0000-0002-4107-3367, Professor, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University Tokyo Japan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 5-6 |
| Pages | 628-655 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-07 |
| 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 | 10.1163/15685209-12341602 |
| OpenAlex | W4382561665 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
This paper focuses on the category of Egyptian provincial officials called mutadarrik who emerged in the late 14th century, to understand the relationship between the government and rural areas, and the state of rural society in late medieval Egypt. After the mid-14th century, the iqṭāʿ land system underwent a major transformation. Amidst repeated plagues, declining agricultural production, rampant political instability, and the rise of Arab tribes in the provinces, the financial and local administrations of the Mamluk Sultanate underwent a substantial process of restructuring. This paper shows that the emergence of the mutadarrik was closely related to these changes in the administration as well as in rural society
Administration (probate law) · Agriculture · Ancient history · Archaeology · Asian studies · China · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Mamluk · Political science · Politics · Restructuring · Rural area · Rural society · State (computer science) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Islamic Finance and Banking Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |