Adam J. Silverstein

Postal Systems in the Pre-Modern Islamic World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A fascinating account of the official methods of communication employed in the pre-modern Near East.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9780521858687
• ISBN-10: 0521858682
• Artikelnr.: 21719110

Autorenporträt

Adam Silverstein is Lecturer in Islamic History at the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

List of maps; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. The Pre-Islamic Background: 1. Pre-Islamic postal systems; Part II. Conquest and Centralisation - The Arabs: 2. al-Bar
d: the early Islamic postal system; 3. D
w
n al-Bar
d: the Middle Abbasid period; Part III. Conquest and Centralisation - The Mongols: 4. The Mongol Y
m and its legacy; 5. The Mamluk Bar
d; Conclusions; Appendix: distances and speeds of the Bar
d; Bibliography; Index.