%0 Book %E Margariti, Roxani Eleni %E Sabra, Adam Abdelhamid %E Sijpesteijn, Petra %E Udovitch, Abraham L. %I Brill %D 2011 %C Leiden Boston %G English %B Brill eBook titles 2011 %@ 9789004214736 %T Histories of the Middle East: studies in Middle Eastern society, economy and law in honor of A.L. Udovitch %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004184275.i-282 %X Preliminary Material /M. Eleni Roxani , A. . Sabra and P. M. Sijpesteijn -- 1. Introduction /Mark R. Cohen -- 2. “There Are ‘ulamā’, and Then There Are ‘ulamā’ ”: MinorReligious Institutions And Minor Religious Functionariesin Medieval Cairo /Jonathan P. Berkey -- 3. The Arabian Silent Trade: Profit And Nobility In The “Markets Of The Arabs” /Michael Bonner -- 4. Ringing Bells In Ḥafṣid Tunis: Religious Concessions Tochristian Fondacos In The Later Thirteenth Century /Olivia Remie Constable -- 5. An Overview Of The Slaves’ Juridical Status At Sea Inromano-Byzantine, And Islamic Laws /Hassan S. Khalilieh -- 6. Maritime Cityscapes: Lessons From Real And Imaginedtopo Graphies Of Western Indian Ocean Ports /Roxani Eleni Margariti -- 7. Demonizing Zenobia: The Legend of al-Zabbā’ In Islamic Sources /David S. Powers -- 8. The View From The South: The Maps Of The Book Of Curiosities And The Commercial Revolution Of The Eleventh Century /Yossef Rapoport -- 9. From Artisan To Courtier: Sufism And Social Mobility In Fifteenth-Century Egypt /Adam Sabra -- 10. Mini-Dramas By The Water: On Irrigation Rights And Disputes In Fifteenth-Century Damascus /Boaz Shoshan -- 11. Army Economics: An Early Papyrus Letter Related to ‘Aā’Payments /Petra M. Sijpesteijn -- Index /M. Eleni Roxani , A. . Sabra and P. M. Sijpesteijn -- Illustrations /M. Eleni Roxani , A. . Sabra and P. M. Sijpesteijn.