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2 - The Local Clergy and “Ties of Indebtedness” in Abbasid Egypt: Some Reflections on Studying Credit and Debt in Early Islamicate Societies

from Part I - Personal ties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2024

By
Cecilia Palombo
Edited by
Edmund Hayes  and
Petra M. Sijpesteijn
Edmund Hayes
Affiliation:
Leiden University, The Netherlands
Petra M. Sijpesteijn
Affiliation:
Leiden University, The Netherlands
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Summary

This chapter discusses the role of Christian churchmen in the credit business and, more broadly, in creating ties of indebtedness in the early Islamic empire. With the help of a multilingual corpus of papyri from the Umayyad and the Abbasid periods, it wishes to contribute to a broader conversation about historical expressions of indebtedness in the premodern Middle East, sustained by anthropological literature on the “debt–credit nexus.” It points to the versatility and multilingualism of early Islamicate documents about debt and to their relation to a wide range of activities, going beyond impoverishment due to high taxation.

Keywords

debt and creditmultilingualismpapyriearly Islamic empire.
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Mechanisms of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire , pp. 60 - 104
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024
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