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Caliphs and merchants: cities and economies of power in the Near East (700-950)

Caliphs and merchants: cities and economies of power in the Near East (700-950)
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ISBN 0198855826 (hardcover)
9780198855828 (hardcover)
Author Bessard, Fanny
Title Caliphs and merchants : cities and economies of power in the Near East (700-950) / Fanny Bessard
Publisher Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2020
Physical desc. xxii, 360 pages ; illustrations (some colour), maps, plans ; 25 cm.
Series Oxford studies in Byzantium
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-342) and index.
Contents Introduction -- The historical context. Conquests -- Ideology -- Agriculture -- Trade -- Part 1: Patronage and power. A stamp of authority -- A caliphal officium -- Sowing and reaping -- Exercise and assertion of power -- New perspectives on urban economic planning -- Growth of communal working areas in the Levant (700-50) -- Process of exclusion of economic clusters under early 'Abbasid rule -- Rabad in Central Asia -- Isolation of domesticity. Productive and public use to domestic shelter -- An emphasis on intimacy -- Conclusion to part 1 -- Part 2: Revisiting the legacies. Artisans to producers -- The progression of change. Persistence of Roman practices after 700 -- Downfall of 'home' production after 800 -- Approaches to key industries. Pottery -- Glassmaking -- Textile industry -- Food processing industries. Oil and wine industries -- Watermills -- Reshaping marketplaces -- From the ergasterion to the suq -- Covered marketplaces. Funduq -- Dar, han, and qaysariyya -- Conclusion to part 2 -- Part 3: Institutional and religious generators. Money supply and currency -- Out with the old... -- Coinage in common -- Balancing supply and demand -- Islamifying the economy -- Commercial rituals and Islamic worship -- Mosques and measures -- The muhtasib -- Conclusion to part 3 -- Part 4: Economy and social changes. The evolution of labour patterns -- Conditions of labour. Servile labour -- Free labour -- Wage labour -- Changing patterns of institutional identity -- Status and composition of the labour force. Disdained and tolerated professions -- Changing division of labour -- Female artisans -- Twilight of the clerical and landowning elite, rise of tuggar -- Retailers and traders before 800 -- Ascendance of tuggar from 800. Financial -- Identity -- Cultural -- Tuggar's political and religious careers -- Tuggar and authority. The defence of trading interests -- Tuggar and economic expansion -- Conclusion to part 4 -- Conclusion.
Subject Islamic cities and towns -- History -- To 1500
Urban economics -- Middle East -- History
Economic history -- Medieval, 500-1500
Islamic Empire -- History -- 661-750
Islamic Empire -- History -- 750-1258
Islamic Empire -- Economic conditions
Islamic Empire -- Kings and rulers
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