International Journal of Middle East Studies

Table of Contents - August 2012 - Volume 44, Issue 03  

A Discussion on the State of Middle Eastern/Islamic Economic History

Synergies between Middle Eastern Economic History and the Analytic Social Sciences

Timur Kurana1

a1 Department of Economics and Department of Political Science, Duke University, Durham, N.C.; e-mail: t.kuran@duke.edu

Over the past half century, the scholarly literature on Middle Eastern economic history has grown substantially. By mining the surviving records of states and towns, scholars steeped in the region's languages have produced detailed studies of waqfs, guilds, taxation, government expenditures, monetary trends, production, land use, charity, and court systems, among many other topics. In carrying out their work, Middle Eastern historians can now draw on abundant publications that describe economic life in particular places and periods.

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