Part I: Economic Exceptionalism in Early Islam: Myth or Realityn
1. The Late Antique and Byzantine Context to early Islamic Mercantile Activity, Peter Sarris
2. An Islamic Agricultural Revolution, Michael Decker
Part II: Politics of Investment
3. Introduction, Hugh Kennedy
A. Caliphal Initiatives
4. Caliphs, the Economy, and Political Separatism in the Hijaz, Harry Munt
5. Power and Money on the Hajj, Peter Webb
6. Early Islamic Water Management in Northern Mesopotamia, Louise Rayne
7. Landholding, Investment, and Irrigation in Lower Iraq, Noemie Lucas
8. Dynamics of Agricultural Investment in al-Ahwaz in the Early Islamic Period, Mehrnoush Soroush
9. A Tale of Two Services: Fatimid Public Services to Control the Maritime Trade, David Bramoulle
B. Economic Initiatives from Religious Communities
10. The Imams as Economic Actors, Ed Hayes
11. Silent Partners: Christians in the Economy of Early Islamic Palestine, Dan Reynolds
Part III: Local and Regional Trading Identities from the Maghreb to the Indian Ocean
12. Introduction, Fanny Bessard
13. The Ibadi Trading Communities of the Maghreb, Cyrille Aillet
14. Muslim Expansionism and the Formation of an Arabian Mercantile Complex in the Red Sea, Kristoffer Damgaard
15. Trade in the Comoros Islands, Stephanes Pradines
16. The Middle East as Seen by the Arab Geographers (Ninth to Tenth centuries): A Multipolar Urban Network, Jean-Charles Ducène
17. North-Eastern Mesopotamia as an Economic Area from an Archaeological Perspective, Karel Novacek
18. Infrastructure and Organisation of the Early Islamic Slave Trade with Northern Europe, Marek Jankowiak
19. Trade in Abbasid Armenia, Alison Vacca
20. The Islamic Trade Network in the Indian Ocean (Ninth to Eleventh Centuries): Locations and Practices, Jean-Charles Ducène
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