Egypt
Rural Society in Medieval Islam
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- Book Review: Making Cairo Medieval
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- Resource: Rural Settlements Of The Oxyrynchite Nome
What's New in Papyrology The Trismegistos project is pleased to announce the fourth volume in its series Trismegistos Online Publications: Amin Benaissa, Rural Settlement of the Oxyrhynchite Nome. A Papyrological Survey, Köln / Leuven 2009, 417...
- Off-topic - Conference: Weather, Climate Change, And British Farming In Historical Perspective
Okay, this one really is slightly bizarre for this blog. But if you're interested in the subject of climate change (which if you're interested in the prehistory of Egypt you probably will be) and you're located in the UK then this might be...
Egypt
Faiyum tax register A.D.1245
Rural Society in Medieval Islam
The ‘History of the Fayyum’ is a unique tax register, in Arabic, listing revenues from 130 villages and hamlets in one Egyptian province for AD 1245. It is the most detailed tax survey to have survived from any region of the medieval Islamic world, a Domesday Book for the medieval Egyptian countryside.
This website offers the tools for a quantitative and qualitative micro-study of society, economy, and agriculture of medieval Fayyum. It gives access to:
- Full fiscal and demographic data set, presented in 17 Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets.
- Spatial representation of the data, presented in 14 Geographical Information System (GIS) maps.
- Extracts from the English translation and Arabic edition of the work.
It also includes resources for teaching the rural history of the Middle East, and a forum area for postings on the history of the Fayyum (available from September 2011).
The website is part of the 'Rural Society in Medieval Islam' project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council UK, and based at the School of History, Queen Mary University of London.
- Exhibition / Interview: “from Nubia To Sudan”
Greek Reporter (by Zdravka Mihaylova) Interview with Alexandros Tsakos and Henriette Hafsaas-Tsakos. With photos. Last October the Benaki Museum of Islamic Art inaugurated the photo exhibition ‘From Nubia to Sudan through the Eyes of the Greek-Norwegian...
- New Book: Sais I By Penelope Wilson
Egypt Exploration Society Penelope Wilson's Sais I soon to be published. We are pleased to announce the imminent publication of Penelope Wilson's Sais I: The Ramesside Third Intermediate Period at Kom Rebwa. Sais was Egypt¹s capital in the 26th...
- Book Review: Making Cairo Medieval
CairObserver (Reviewed by Seif El Rashidi, Aga Khan Cultural Services, Egypt) Nezar AlSayyad, Irene Bierman, Nasser Rabbat, eds. Making Cairo Medieval. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2005. vi + 266 pp. $83.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7391-0915-1; $29.95 (paper),...
- Resource: Rural Settlements Of The Oxyrynchite Nome
What's New in Papyrology The Trismegistos project is pleased to announce the fourth volume in its series Trismegistos Online Publications: Amin Benaissa, Rural Settlement of the Oxyrhynchite Nome. A Papyrological Survey, Köln / Leuven 2009, 417...
- Off-topic - Conference: Weather, Climate Change, And British Farming In Historical Perspective
Okay, this one really is slightly bizarre for this blog. But if you're interested in the subject of climate change (which if you're interested in the prehistory of Egypt you probably will be) and you're located in the UK then this might be...