The villages of the Fayyum: a thirteenth-century register of rural, Islamic Egypt

Richly annotated and with a detailed introduction, this volume offers the first academic edition and translation of a first-hand account of the Egyptian countryside, offering a key insight into the rural economy of medieval Islam. Medieval Islamic society was overwhelmingly a society of peasants, an...

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1. Verfasser: Nābulusī, ʿUṯmān Ibn-Ibrāhīm an- 1192-1262 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Rapoport, Yossef 1968- (HerausgeberIn), Shahar, Ido 1969- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Arabic
Veröffentlicht: Turnhout, Belgium Brepols [2018]
Schriftenreihe:The medieval countryside volume 18
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Zusammenfassung:Richly annotated and with a detailed introduction, this volume offers the first academic edition and translation of a first-hand account of the Egyptian countryside, offering a key insight into the rural economy of medieval Islam. Medieval Islamic society was overwhelmingly a society of peasants, and the achievements of Islamic civilization depended, first and foremost, on agricultural production. Yet the history of the medieval Islamic countryside has been neglected or marginalized. Basic questions such as the social and religious identities of village communities, or the relationship of the peasant to the state, are either ignored or discussed from a normative point of view. This volume addresses this lacuna in our understanding of medieval Islam by presenting a first-hand account of the Egyptian countryside. Dating from the middle of the thirteenth century, Abu-Uthman al-Nabulusi's Villages of the Fayyum is as close as we get to the tax registers of any rural province. Not unlike the Domesday Book of medieval England, al-Nabulusi?s work provides a wealth of detail for each village which far surpasses any other source for the rural economy of medieval Islam. It is a unique, comprehensive snap-shot of one rural society at one, significant, point in its history, and an insight into the way of life of the majority of the population in the medieval Islamic world.
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis Seite [247]-251
Der von an-Nābulūsī selbst verwendete Titel des Originals ist "Iẓhār ṣanʿat al-haiy al-qaiyūm fī tartīb bilād al-Faiyūm". 1899 wurde in Kairo eine Edition unter dem Titel "Tāriḫ al-Faiyūm wa-bilādih[i]" von Bernhard Moritz herausgegeben; unter diesem Titel wird das Werk in der wissenschaftlichen Literatur zitiert
Beschreibung:VIII, 260 Seiten
ISBN:9782503542775

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