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Postal Systems in the Pre-Modern Islamic World (Paperback)
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Postal Systems in the Pre-Modern Islamic World (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
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Adam Silverstein's book offers a fascinating account of the
official methods of communication employed in the Near East from
pre-Islamic times through the Mamluk period. Postal systems were
set up by rulers in order to maintain control over vast tracts of
land. These systems, invented centuries before steam-engines or
cars, enabled the swift circulation of different commodities - from
letters, people and horses to exotic fruits and ice. As the
correspondence transported often included confidential reports from
a ruler's provinces, such postal systems doubled as
espionage-networks through which news reached the central
authorities quickly enough to allow a timely reaction to events.
The book sheds light not only on the role of communications
technology in Islamic history, but also on how nomadic culture
contributed to empire-building in the Near East. This is a
long-awaited contribution to the history of pre-modern
communications systems in the Near Eastern world.
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