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Medieval Islamic society was overwhelmingly a society of peasants, and the achievements of Islamic civilization depended, first and foremost, on agricultural production. Yet the history of the medieval Islamic countryside has been neglected or marginalized. Basic questions such as the social and religious identities of village communities, or the relationship of the peasant to the state, are either ignored or discussed from a normative point of view. This volume addresses this lacuna in our unde

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Author

Yossef Rapoport, Ido Shahar (eds., transl.)

Publisher

Brepols; Brepols Publishers

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9782503542775

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-25