TY - BOOK AU - Margariti,Roxani Eleni AU - Udovitch,Abraham L. AU - Sabra,Adam AU - Sijpesteijn,Petra M. TI - Histories of the Middle East: studies in Middle Eastern society, economy and law in honor of A. L. Udovitch T2 - Islamic history and civilization SN - 9004184279 AV - DS57 U1 - 956/.01 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Leiden [u.a.] PB - Brill KW - Civilization, Arab KW - Islamic civilization KW - Civilization, Medieval KW - Class of Spring 2016 KW - Nina Maria Gorrissen Fellow in History KW - Fellow KW - Islamic Empire KW - Economic conditions KW - Aufsatzsammlung KW - gnd-content N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; "There are 'ulama', and then there are 'ulama" : minor religious institutions and minor religious functionaries in medieval Cairo; Jonathan P. Berkey; The Arabian silent trade : profit and nobility in the "markets of the 'Arabs'"; Michael Bonner; Ringing church bells in Afsid Tunis : religious concessions to Christian fondacos in the later thirteenth century; Olivia Remie Constable; An overview of the slaves' juridical status at sea in Romano-Byzantine, and Islamic laws; Hassan S. Khalilieh; Maritime cityscapes : lessons from real and imagined topographies of western Indian Ocean ports; Roxani Eleni Margariti; Demonizing zenobia : the legend of al-Zabba" in Islamic sources; David S. Powers; The view from the south : the maps of the book of curiosities and the commercial revolution of the eleventh century; Yossef Rapoport; From artisan to courtier : sufism and social mobility in fifteenth-century Egypt; Adam Sabra; Mini-dramas by the water : on irrigation rights and disputes in fifteenth-century Damascus; Boaz Shoshan; Army economics : an early papyrus letter related to 'ata' payments; Petra M. Sijpesteijn ER -