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Michael Brett
Researcher at SOAS, University of London
Publications - 30
Citations - 349
Michael Brett is an academic researcher from SOAS, University of London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Islam & Empire. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 29 publications receiving 342 citations.
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Ifriqiya as a Market for Saharan Trade from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century A.D
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Islam and Trade in the Bilād AL-Sūdān, Tenth-Eleventh Century A.D.
TL;DR: Two fatwā-s or legal opinions of the jurist al-Qaisi at Qayrawān about the year A.D. 1000 show the way in which the Law of Islam was used to protect the Muslim against the hazards of trans-Saharan trade with the Bilād al-Suddan as discussed by the authors.
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Problems in the interpretation of the history of the Maghrib in the light of some recent publications
TL;DR: In this paper, Gellner and Abun-Nasr have, in various ways, sought to explain an absence of effective government in terms of Ibn Khhaldūn's cyclical theory of the rise and fall of dynasties, taking the traditional Moroccan distinction between a Bilād al Makhzan and a Bilád al Síba to represent the antithesis between the civilized and the primitive on which that theory rests.
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The way of the peasant
TL;DR: The book under review here is to be compared with the volume published over ten years ago under the editorship of Michael Cook, Studies in the economic history of the Middle East (London, 1970) as discussed by the authors.
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Legislating for inequality in Algeria: the Senatus-Consulte of 14 July 1865
TL;DR: The lois de competence ne sont done plus les memes for tous ceux qui se trouvent en Algerie as discussed by the authors, aujourd'hui une distinction doit etre faite, et, ce qui doit paraitre invraisemblable en France, au xxe siecle, le criterium de cette distinction est religion.