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Landholding, Investment and Irrigation in Lower-Iraq during the first two centuries of Islam : what role did the Islamic State play ?

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The aim of my paper is to appraise the role played by the Islamic state in Lower Iraq during the first two centuries of Islam and argue that the then-forming Islamic state was at the heart of interplay between landholding, investment and irrigation. I believe that a link can be drawn between the formation of a Muslim landholding elite, investment in irrigation and economic development of the Islamic Empire during the first two centuries of Islam. In a way, my work is above all about acknowledging how landholding and investment in irrigation were part of a system, i.e. a combination of co-related organized components interacting, at the heart of which the Islamic state worked to position itself. First, I will define the nature of the investments in irrigation and detail the areas concerned by these investments. Secondly, I will show how the Early Abbasid Islamic state tried to organize the irrigation-based system and control it with the help of legal codification.

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hal-02098825 , version 1 (13-04-2019)

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Noëmie Lucas. Landholding, Investment and Irrigation in Lower-Iraq during the first two centuries of Islam : what role did the Islamic State play ?. Conference "The Early Islamic Economy: Economic integration and social change in the Islamic world system (800-1000)", School of Oriental and African Studies; The Leverhulme Network, Nov 2017, Londres, United Kingdom. ⟨hal-02098825⟩
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