Caliphs and Merchants
Caliphs and Merchants
Cities and Economies of Power in the Near East (700-950)
Bessard, Fanny
Oxford University Press
10/2020
400
Dura
Inglês
9780198855828
15 a 20 dias
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Frontmatter List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Notes on Transcription and Dates Maps 0: Introduction 1: The Historical Context 1. Conquests 2. Ideology 3. Agriculture 4. Trade PART I. PATRONAGE AND POWER 2: A Stamp of Authority 1. A Caliphal officium 2. Sowing and reaping 3. Exercise and assertion of power 3: New Perspectives on Urban Economic Planning 1. Growth of communal working areas in the Levant (700-750) 2. Process of exclusion of economic clusters under early 'Abb=asid rule 3. Raba.d in Central Asia 4. Isolation of domesticity 4.1. Productive and public use to domestic shelter 4.2. An emphasis on intimacy 3a: Conclusion PART II. REVISITING THE LEGACIES 4: Artisans to Producers 1. The progression of change 1.1. Persistence of Roman practices after 700 1.2. Downfall of 'home' production after 800 2. Approaches to key industries 2.1. Pottery 2.2. Glass-making 2.3. Textile industry 3. Food processing industries 3.1. Oil and wine industries 3.2. Watermills 5: Reshaping Market-Places 1. From the ergast=erion to the s=uq 2. Covered market-places 2.1. Funduq 2.2. D=ar, nh=an, and qays=ariyya 5a: Conclusion PART III. INSTITUTIONAL AND RELIGIOUS GENERATORS 6: Money Supply and Currency 1. Out with the old 2. Coinage in common 3. Balancing supply and demand 7: Islamifying the Economy 1. Commercial rituals and Islamic worship 2. Mosques and measures 3. The mu.htasib 7a: Conclusion PART IV. ECONOMY AND SOCIAL CHANGES 8: The Evolution of Labour Patterns 1. Conditions of labour 1.1. Servile labour 1.2. Free labour 1.3. Wage labour 2. Changing patterns of institutional identity 3. Status and composition of the labour force 3.1. Disdained and tolerated professions 3.2. Changing division of labour 3.3. Female artisans 9: Twilight of the Clerical and Landowning Elite, Rise of Tu%g%g=ar 1. Retailers and traders before 800 2. Ascendance of tu%g%g=ar from 800 2.1. Financial 2.2. Identity 2.3. Cultural 3. Tu%g%g=ar's political and religious careers 4. Tu%g%g=ar and authority 4.1. The defense of trading interests 4.2. Tu%g%g=ar and economic expansion 9a: Conclusion 10: Conclusion Endmatter Appendix References Index
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Frontmatter List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Notes on Transcription and Dates Maps 0: Introduction 1: The Historical Context 1. Conquests 2. Ideology 3. Agriculture 4. Trade PART I. PATRONAGE AND POWER 2: A Stamp of Authority 1. A Caliphal officium 2. Sowing and reaping 3. Exercise and assertion of power 3: New Perspectives on Urban Economic Planning 1. Growth of communal working areas in the Levant (700-750) 2. Process of exclusion of economic clusters under early 'Abb=asid rule 3. Raba.d in Central Asia 4. Isolation of domesticity 4.1. Productive and public use to domestic shelter 4.2. An emphasis on intimacy 3a: Conclusion PART II. REVISITING THE LEGACIES 4: Artisans to Producers 1. The progression of change 1.1. Persistence of Roman practices after 700 1.2. Downfall of 'home' production after 800 2. Approaches to key industries 2.1. Pottery 2.2. Glass-making 2.3. Textile industry 3. Food processing industries 3.1. Oil and wine industries 3.2. Watermills 5: Reshaping Market-Places 1. From the ergast=erion to the s=uq 2. Covered market-places 2.1. Funduq 2.2. D=ar, nh=an, and qays=ariyya 5a: Conclusion PART III. INSTITUTIONAL AND RELIGIOUS GENERATORS 6: Money Supply and Currency 1. Out with the old 2. Coinage in common 3. Balancing supply and demand 7: Islamifying the Economy 1. Commercial rituals and Islamic worship 2. Mosques and measures 3. The mu.htasib 7a: Conclusion PART IV. ECONOMY AND SOCIAL CHANGES 8: The Evolution of Labour Patterns 1. Conditions of labour 1.1. Servile labour 1.2. Free labour 1.3. Wage labour 2. Changing patterns of institutional identity 3. Status and composition of the labour force 3.1. Disdained and tolerated professions 3.2. Changing division of labour 3.3. Female artisans 9: Twilight of the Clerical and Landowning Elite, Rise of Tu%g%g=ar 1. Retailers and traders before 800 2. Ascendance of tu%g%g=ar from 800 2.1. Financial 2.2. Identity 2.3. Cultural 3. Tu%g%g=ar's political and religious careers 4. Tu%g%g=ar and authority 4.1. The defense of trading interests 4.2. Tu%g%g=ar and economic expansion 9a: Conclusion 10: Conclusion Endmatter Appendix References Index