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

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

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Nābulusī, ʻUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm, active 1235, author.
Uniform title:	Iẓhār Ṣanʻat al-Ḥayy al-Qayyūm fī Tartīb Bilād al-Fayyūm. English
Imprint:	Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2018] ©2018
Description:	viii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language:	English Arabic
Series:	The Medieval Countryside ; volume 18. Medieval countryside ; v. 18.
Subject:	Taxation -- Egypt -- Fayyūm -- Registers. Taxation -- Egypt -- Fayyūm -- History -- Sources. Antiquities. Rural conditions. Taxation. Fayyūm (Egypt) -- Antiquities. Fayyūm (Egypt) -- Rural conditions -- History -- To 1500 -- Sources. Egypt -- Fayyūm. History. Registers (Lists) Sources.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12743185

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:	Rapoport, Yossef, 1968- editor, translator. Shahar, Ido, 1969- editor, translator.
ISBN:	9782503542775 2503542778
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-251) and indexes. Introduction in English; main text in Arabic and English.
Summary:	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. Richly annotated and with a detailed introduction, this volume offers the first academic edition of this work and the first translation into a European language.

Description
Summary:	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. Richly annotated and with a detailed introduction, this volume offers the first academic edition of this work and the first translation into a European language. By opening up this key source to scholars, it will be an indispensable resource for historians of Egypt, of administration and rural life in the premodern world generally, and of the Middle East in particular.
Physical Description:	viii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-251) and indexes.
ISBN:	9782503542775 2503542778