The Islamic Middle East,700-1900: Studies in Economic and Social History

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Red cover with black text and silver emblem in center Contents List of Contributors Preface A Note on Transliteration and Orthography Introduction—Technology, Land Tenure, and Rural Society: Aspects of Continuity in the Agricultural History of the Pre-Modern Middle East Part I: Land and Society in the Middle Ages 1. A Medieval Green Revolution: New Crops and Farming Techniques in the Early Islamic World 2. Some Technical Aspects of Agriculture In Medieval Egypt 3. Levantine Sugar Industry in the Late Middle Ages: A Case of Technological Decline 4. Landholding in Seventh-Century Iraq: Late Sasanian and Early Islamic Patterns 5. Arab Settlement and Economic Development of Iraq and Iran in the Age of the Umayyad and Early Abbasid Caliphs 6. Law and Economy in Ifriqiya (Tunisia) in the Third Islamic Century: Agriculture and the Role of Slaves in the Country’s Economy 7. Socioeconomic Structure and Continuity: Medieval Spanish Islam in the Tax Records of Crusader Valencia 8. Reflections on the Role of Agriculture in Medieval Persia 9. Monetary Circulation in Egypt at the Time of the Crusades and the Reform of Al-Kamil 10. Strategic Implications of the Slave Trade between Genoa and Mamluk Egypt in the Second Half of the Thirteenth Century Part II: Historical Demography 11. Archival Sources for Demographic Studies of the Middle East 12. The Area and Population of the Arab Empire: An Essay In Speculation 13. The General Mortality of the Black Death in the Mamluk Empire 14. Birth Control and Middle Eastern History: Part III: Land Tenure and Taxation in the Pre-Modern Middle East 15. An Economic Model for Ottoman Egypt: The Economics of Collective Tax Responsibility 16. The Development of Agricultural Production in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: Capitalism of What Type? 17. The Beginnings of Commercialized Agriculture in Iran Part IV: Society and Economy in the Pre-Modern Middle East 18. Village and City in Egypt and Syria: 1500-1914 19. Economic Relations between Damascus and the Dependent Countryside, 1743-71 20. The Economic Crisis of Egypt in the Eighteenth Century 21. The Tunisian Fellaheen in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 22. Merchants and Artisans and the Developmental Processes of Nineteenth-Century Iran 23. The Western Presence in the Arab Middle East at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century 24. Socioeconomic Change in the Middle East since 1800: A Comparative Analysis Index