Land and Trade in Early Islam - The Economy of the Islamic Middle East 750-1050 CE (Hardcover)

Land and Trade in Early Islam discusses the latest developments in the field of early Islamic economic and social history, and explores the notion of polycentrism and the dialectic between global and local between 700 and 1050 CE. The volume explores the political mechanisms and the role of Islamic states in regulating and developing demand in the economy. The chapters question the binary of core/periphery, and demonstrate how the growing scholarship on the liminal regions of the Caliphate has transformed our understanding of the early Islamic world by offering a more nuanced picture of its regional urban and socio-economic dynamics. Changes in the peripheries of the early medieval Caliphate have traditionally been conceived as resulting from initiatives by the core. An increased focus on the comparatively under-explored regions in central Asia, north Africa, south-east Asia and the Caucasus has thrown this into question. Land and Trade in Early Islam draws on this growing body of scholarship to question the notion of peripherality, explore lines of economic influence and interdependence, and to better understand the regional economic, social and political dynamics of this period.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2023
Editors:	Hugh Kennedy • Fanny Bessard
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	576
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-886308-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > General Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > Middle & Near Eastern archaeology > General Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-886308-X
Barcode:	9780198863083

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