Parution : Hugh Kennedy and Fanny Bessard (Eds), Land and Trade in Early Islam. The Economy of the Islamic Middle East 750-1050 CE, Oxford University Press, 2024

Land and Trade in Early Islam
The Economy of the Islamic Middle East 750-1050 CE

Edited by Hugh Kennedy and Fanny Bessard

• The first in-depth examination in English into the economic polycentrism of the early Islamic world
• Draws on previously unpublished data, new archaeological evidence, and literary sources in Arabic, Greek, and Armenian
• Offers a comparative approach to place the economics of early Islam into a global context

Land and Trade in Early Islam discusses the latest developments in the field of early Islamic economic and social history, and explores the notion of polycentrism and the dialectic between global and local between 700 and 1050 CE. The volume explores the political mechanisms and the role of Islamic states in regulating and developing demand in the economy. The chapters question the binary of core/periphery, and demonstrate how the growing scholarship on the liminal regions of the Caliphate has transformed our understanding of the early Islamic world by offering a more nuanced picture of its regional urban and socio-economic dynamics. Changes in the peripheries of the early medieval Caliphate have traditionally been conceived as resulting from initiatives by the core. An increased focus on the comparatively under-explored regions in central Asia, north Africa, south-east Asia and the Caucasus has thrown this into question. Land and Trade in Early Islam draws on this growing body of scholarship to question the notion of peripherality, explore lines of economic influence and interdependence, and to better understand the regional economic, social and political dynamics of this period.

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