The chapters in this volume are taken from the sources listed below. The editor and publishers wish to thank the authors, original publishers or other copyright holders for permission to use their material as follows:
CHAPTER 1: Translation of: G. Wiet, V. Elisséeff and Ph. Wolff, "L'évolution des techniques dans le monde musulman au Moyen Age", Journal of World History 6 (Paris, 1960–61), pp. 15–44. Translation by Gwendolyn Goldbloom; Copyright © 2003 Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
CHAPTER 2: S.D. Goitein, "The Main Industries of the Mediterranean Area as Reflected in the Records of the Cairo Geniza", Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 4 (Leiden, 1961), pp. 168–97. Copyright © 1961 BRILL.
CHAPTER 3: Translation of: Jean Sauvaget, "Introduction à l'étude de la céramique musulmane", Revue des études islamiques 33 (Paris, 1965), pp. 1–72. Translation by Gwendolyn Goldbloom; Copyright © 2003 Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
CHAPTER 4: Gladys Frantz-Murphy, "A New Interpretation of the Economic History of Medieval Egypt: the Role of the Textile Industry, 254–567/868–1171", Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. 24 (Leiden, 1981), pp. 274–97. Copyright © 1981 BRILL.
CHAPTER 5: Translation of: Ignaz Goldziher, "Die Handwerke bei den Arabern", Globus 46 (Bonn, 1894), pp. 203–205. Translation by Gwendolyn Goldbloom; Copyright © 2003 Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
CHAPTER 6: Translation of: Robert Brunschvig, "Métiers vils en Islam", Studia Islamica 16 (Paris, 1962), pp. 41–60. Translation by Gwendolyn Goldbloom; Copyright © 2003 Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
CHAPTER 7: Translation of: Jamal Judah, Al-Awḍā' al-ijtimā'īya wa-l-iqtiṣadīya li-l-mawālī fī ṣadr al-Islām (Amman, 1409/1989), pp. 107–42. Translation by Michael Fishbein; Copyright © 2003 Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
CHAPTER 8: Translation of: Barbara Finster, "Handworker und Handwerkergruppen in den ersten Jahrhunderten des Islam", in Adalbert J. Gail, ed., Kunstler und Werkstatt in den orientalischen Gesellschaften (Graz, 1982), pp. 7–16. Translation by Gwendolin Goldbloom; Copyright © 2003 by Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
CHAPTER 9: S.D. Goitein, "The Working People of the Mediterranean Area during the High Middle Ages", in S.D. Goitein, Studies in Islamic History and Institutions, 2nd ed. (Leiden, 1966), pp. 255—78. Copyright © 1961 BRILL.
CHAPTER 10: Muhammad 'Abdul Jabbar, "Agricultural and Irrigation Labourers in Social and Economic Life of 'Irāq during the Umayyad and 'Abbāsid Caliphates", Islamic Culture 47 (Hyderabad, 1973), pp. 15–31.
CHAPTER 11: Muhammad 'Abdul Jabbār Beg, "The 'Serfs' of Islamic Society under the 'Abbāsid Regime", Islamic Culture 49 (Hyderabad, 1975), pp. 107–18.
CHAPTER 12: Mohamed Talbi, "Law and Economy in Ifrīqiya (Tunisia) in the Third Islamic Century: Agriculture and the Role of Slaves in the Country's Economy", in A.L. Udovitch, ed., The Islamic Middle East, 700–1900: Studies in Economic and Social History (Princeton, 1981), pp. 209–49. Copyright © 1981 Darwin Press.
CHAPTER 13: Abraham L. Udovitch, "Labor Partnerships in Early Islamic Law", Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 10 (Leiden, 1961), pp. 64–80, Copyright © 1961 BRILL.
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