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    <title>Histories of the Middle East</title>
    <subTitle>studies in Middle Eastern society, economy and law in honor of A.L. Udovitch</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Margariti, Roxani Eleni</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1969-</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Sabra, Adam Abdelhamid</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1968-</namePart>
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    <namePart>Sijpesteijn, Petra.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Udovitch, Abraham L.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Brill</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2011</dateIssued>
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    <extent>xxviii, 278 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>"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 Hafsid 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.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Roxani Eleni Margariti, Adam Sabra, Petra M. Sijpesteijn.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <note>Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.</note>
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    <topic>Civilization, Arab</topic>
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    <topic>Islamic civilization</topic>
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    <topic>Civilization, Medieval</topic>
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    <geographic>Middle East</geographic>
    <topic>Civilization</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">DS57 .H57 2011eb</classification>
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      <title>Islamic history and civilization ; v. 79</title>
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