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Title Histories of the Middle East : Studies in Middle Eastern Society, Economy and Law in Honor of A.L. Udovitch / edited by Roxani Eleni Margariti, Adam Sabra, Petra M. Sijpesteijn
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 278 pages) : illustrations (some color), map
Series Islamic history and civilization : studies and texts ; v. 79
Islamic history and civilization ; v. 79.
Contents "There are 'ulama', and then there are 'ulama" : minor religious institutions and minor religious functionaries in medieval Cairo / Jonathan P. Berkey -- The Arabian silent trade : profit and nobility in the "markets of the 'Arabs'" / Michael Bonner -- Ringing church bells in Hafsid Tunis : religious concessions to Christian fondacos in the later thirteenth century / Olivia Remie Constable -- An overview of the slaves' juridical status at sea in Romano-Byzantine, and Islamic laws / Hassan S. Khalilieh -- Maritime cityscapes : lessons from real and imagined topographies of western Indian Ocean ports / Roxani Eleni Margariti -- Demonizing zenobia : the legend of al-Zabba" in Islamic sources / David S. Powers -- The view from the south : the maps of the book of curiosities and the commercial revolution of the eleventh century / Yossef Rapoport -- From artisan to courtier : sufism and social mobility in fifteenth-century Egypt / Adam Sabra -- Mini-dramas by the water : on irrigation rights and disputes in fifteenth-century Damascus / Boaz Shoshan -- Army economics : an early papyrus letter related to 'ata' payments / Petra M. Sijpesteijn
Summary For four decades Abraham L. Udovitch has been a leading scholar of the medieval Islamic world, its economic institutions, social structures, and legal theory and practice. In pursuing his quest to understand and explain the complex phenomena that these broad rubrics entail, he has published widely, collaborated internationally with other leading scholars of the Middle East and medieval history, and most saliently for the purposes of this volume, taught several cohorts of students at Princeton University. This volume is therefore dedicated to his intellectual legacy from a uniquely revealing an
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Civilization, Arab.
Islamic civilization.
Civilization, Medieval.
HISTORY -- General.
Civilization
Civilization, Arab
Civilization, Medieval
Islamic civilization
SUBJECT Middle East -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090502
Subject Middle East
Genre/Form Festschriften
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Margariti, Roxani Eleni, 1969-
Sabra, Adam Abdelhamid, 1968-
Sijpesteijn, Petra
Udovitch, Abraham L
LC no. 2010037331
ISBN 9789004214736
9004214739
1283119552
9781283119559
9786613119551
6613119555