Studies in the economic history of the Middle East : from the rise of Islam to the present day / edited by M.A. Cook.

Papers submitted to a conference held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, in the University of London in July 1967.

Includes bibliographical references.

Guilds in Middle Eastern history / Gabriel Baer -- Quelques mots sur le déclin commercial du monde musulman à la fin du moyen âge / Claude Cahen -- Monetary aspects of medieval Near Eastern economic history / Andrew S. Ehrenkreutz -- Mediterranean trade in the eleventh century : some facts and problems / S. D. Goitein -- Egyptian commercial policy in the Middle Ages / Subhi Labib -- Sources for the economic history of the Middle East / Bernard Lewis -- England to Egypt, 1350-1500 : long-term trends and long distance trade / Robert Lopez, Harry Miskimin, and Abraham Udovitch -- The size and value of the Iqtạ̄ʻ in Egypt, 564-741 A.H./1169-1341 A.D. / Hassanein Rabie -- Histoire économique et histoire des classes sociales dans le monde musulman / Maxime Rodinson -- Research on the Ottoman fiscal surveys / Ömer Lûtfi̇ Barkan -- Les celep et leur rê dans la vie économique des Balkans à l'époque ottomane (XVe-XVIIIe s.) / Bistra Cvetkova -- English imports from the Middle East, 1580-1780 / Ralph Davis -- The Ottoman economic mind and aspects of the Ottoman economy / Hali̇l İnalcik -- Materials of war in the Ottoman Empire / V. J. Parry -- Siviş year crises in the Ottoman Empire / Hali̇l Sahi̇lli̇oğlu -- Sociology and economic history : an essay on mediation / Anouar Abdel-Malek -- L'évolution des structures du financement du développement économique en Egypte de 1952 à 1967 / Samir Amin -- Historical obstacles to the development of a bourgeoisie in Iran / Ahmad Ashraf -- Les cadres sociaux de l'économie agraire dans le proche-orient au début du XIXe siècle : le cas du Mont Liban / Dominique Chevallier -- The role of foreign trade in the economic development of Iraq, 1864-1964 : a study in the growth of a dependent economy / Mohammad Salman Hasan -- Growth models for the Middle East / Z. Y. Hershlag -- Middle East economic development, 1815-1914 : the general and the specific / Charles Issawi -- Structural changes in the Egyptian economy, 1937-1965 / Robert Mabro and Patrick O'Brien -- Patterns and problems of economic development in rentier states : the case of Iran / Hossein Mahdavy -- The profitability of Middle Eastern oil ventures : a historical approach / Zuhayr Mikdashi -- The attitudes of British officials to the development of the Egyptian economy, 1882-1922 / E. R. J. Owen -- The India Office records as a source for the economic history of the Middle East / M. E. Yapp.