Studies in the Economic History of the Middle East: From the Rise of Islam to the Present Day

by Michael A. Cook

First Published in 2004. Did medieval Muslims have the concept of a 'social class'? If not, can we usefully employ the term in analysing their society? Were there such things as guilds in the medieval Middle East? Would we understand the economic de- cline of Mamluk Egypt better if we used paradigms derived from the study of the economic history of England and Italy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries? How much can the enormous fiscal archive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197135617
• ISBN13: 9780197135617
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 2.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.5"