Postal systems in the pre-modern Islamic world /

"Adam Silverstein's book offers an account of the official methods of communication employed in the Near East from pre-Islamic times through the Mamluk period. Postal systems were set up by rulers in order to maintain control over vast tracts of land. These systems, invented centuries befo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Silverstein, Adam J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Series:Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
Subjects:
To 1500
Postal service > Middle East > History > To 1500.
Communication > Middle East > History > To 1500.
Islamic civilization.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Commerce.
Civilization
Communication
Islamic civilization
Postal service
Post
Middle East > Civilization.
Moyen-Orient > Civilisation.
Middle East
Naher Osten
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Maps; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I The pre-Islamic background; Chapter 1 Pre-Islamic postal systems; Part II Conquest and centralisation
  • the Arabs; Chapter 2 al-Barid: the early Islamic postal system; Chapter 3 Diwan al-Barid: the Middle Abbasid period; Part III Conquest and centralisation
  • the Mongols; Chapter 4 The Mongol Yam and its legacy; Chapter 5 The Mamluk Barid; Conclusions; Appendix: distances and speeds of the Barid; Bibliography; Index

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