Rural Economy and Tribal Society in Islamic Egypt

A Study of al-Nābulusī’s Villages of the Fayyum

Bibliographic Data

ID9331802
AuthorsYossef Rapoport (corresponding author)
Year2018
Pages285
Publication date2018-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueRural Economy and Tribal Society in Islamic Egypt (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrepols (PUBLISHER • BE)
DOI10.1484/m.tmc-eb.5.112961
OpenAlexW2917937547
ISBN9782503575186
Open LibraryOL37976098M
LanguageEN
Citations received6

The 'Villages of the Fayyum' is a unique and unparalleled thirteenth-century Arabic tax register of the province of the Fayyum in Middle Egypt. Based on this tax-register, this book utilises quantitative research methods and spatial GIS analysis to provide a rich account of the rural economy of the medieval Fayyum, the tribal organization of the village communities, and their rights and duties in relation to the military landholders. It also draws on the rich documentary evidence of the Fayyum, which stretches back to the Greco-Roman and early Islamic periods, to trace the transformation of the Fayyum into a Muslim-majority and Arab province. This volume thus offers a radically new perspective on the social and economic history of the medieval Islamic countryside. It makes a major contribution to the history of Islamic Egypt, its rural economy, and to our understanding of taxation and administration under the Ayyubids. Most importantly, its argument for the metamorphosis of the Coptic peasantry into Muslim and tribal Arab society has profound implications for Middle Eastern history in general, and challenges our modern concept of Arab identity

Archaeology · Development economics · Economics · Economy · Geography · Islam · Political science · Rural area · Rural economy · African history and culture analysis · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Egypt · History · Rural conditions · Social conditions

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