OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Arboriculture and Viticulture as Investment in the Early Islamic Levant: An Archaeobotanical and Historical Investigation of the Site of Ashkelon	5
Slave Trade Dynamics in Abbasid Egypt: The Papyrological Evidence	3
When the Other Speaks: Ismāʿīl Gasprinskii and the Concept of Islamic Reformation	3
Archaeological Perspectives on Contacts between Cairo and Eastern Ethiopia in the 12th to 15th Centuries	2
History in High Places: Tatarna Monastery and the Pindus Mountains	2
Aḥmad Yasavī and the Ismāʿīlīs of Badakhshān: Towards a New Social History of Sufi-Shīʿī Relations in Central Asia	2
Şeyhulislâm Feyzullah Efendi, the Ḥanafī Mufti of Jerusalem and the Rise of the Provincial Fatāwā Collections in the Eighteenth Century	2
Ottoman Raiders (Akıncıs) as a Driving Force of Early Ottoman Conquest of the Balkans and the Slavery-Based Economy	2
The Watermills of Mosul in the Ottoman Period	2
From the Tian Shan to Crimea: Dynamics of Plague Spread during the Early Stages of the Black Death, 1338–46	2
The Melaka Sultanate, c.1400–1528	2
Old Routes, New Dreams: Reminiscences of the Southern Silk Road and Bengal-China Connectivities	1
The Diver’s New Papers: Wealth, People, and Property in a Persian Gulf Bazaar	1
Crafting a Categorical Ayutthaya: Ethnic Labeling, Administrative Reforms, and Social Organization in an Early Modern Entrepôt	1
“Melaka” in Chinese Texts: Archivalisation and Macro Patterns Related to Records of Melaka in the Ming and Qing Periods (Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)	1
Pavilions to Celebrate Honest Officials: An Authenticity Dilemma in Fifteenth-Century China	1
Capitalism in Khiva: Cash Waqf or Cash Loan?	1
Ijtihād in Putin’s Russia? Signature Fatwas from Moscow and Kazan	1
Regionalization without Vernacularization: The Place of Persian in Eighteenth-Century Sindh	1
The Use of Social Isolation (inqiṭāʿ) by Jewish Women in Medieval Egypt	1
China and the Two Romes. The 1081 and 1091 “Fulin” Embassies to the Song Empire	1
Ottoman Archival Documents on the Shrines of Karbala, Najaf, and the Hejaz (1660s-1720s): Endowment Wars, the Spoils System, and Iranian Pilgrims	1
On Folklore Archives and Heritage Claims: the Manas Epic in Kyrgyzstan	1
The Lords of Kawkabān and the Transformation of the State in Early Modern Yemen (15th–17th Centuries)	1
Seeing Like a Khedivate: Taxing Endowed Agricultural Land, Proofs of Ownership, and the Land Administration in Egypt, 1869	1

Time as Method	1
“The Turquoise Was Brought From Chorasmia” Mining, Empire, and the People of the Steppes across the Achaemenid Northeastern Borderlands	1
Corrigendum	0
Cash Waqfs and Commercial Capital: Evidence from Ottoman-Venetian Trade (16th Century)	0
A Comment on Michael Laffan’s JESHO Lecture	0
The Forgotten Jihad under Japan: Muslim Reformism and the Promise of Indonesian Independence	0
Building Empire, Creating Markets: Commercial Policies and Practices in Imperial Qin (221–207 BCE)	0
Reconciling Peoples and Places: Perpetual Re-interpretation in Perceptions of Social and Cultural Identities in Northeast China	0
An Issue of Intercultural Communication: An Unknown Letter from the “Sultan of Babylon” to Pope Innocent VIII	0
Gender and Property Relations in Eighteenth-Century Inner Mongolia: Records of Marriage Transactions from Qanggin-Banner (Ordos)	0
The Wrong Side of the River: a Cantonese Emigrant Community in the Nineteenth-Century Mobility Transition	0
Hui Corporate Strategies and Islamic Cultural Capital and in Qing Guangzhou	0
Back matter	0
Integrating Faith and Profit: The Religio-Commercial Network Spanning China and Japan, 1100-1270	0
Remarks on Petrushevskii’s Article K istorii instituta soiurgala	0
The Promiscuous Life of a Genre for the Dead: The Marthiya as an Instrument of Community Construction in Muslim Russia	0
Front matter	0
Flexible Forms of Contracts: Transactions through Fictitious Settlements (ṣulḥ/muṣālaḥa) in Iran	0
Back matter	0
Continuity and Change at Millennial Scale: The Holy Sites of Serindia	0
Preaching and Preening: A Ṭūṭī’s Book in Persianate India	0
How to Research the Multiethnic Empire and Its Colonial Legacy: a Response Paper to “Reconciling Peoples and Places” by Loretta Kim	0
From Reluctance to Reliance: Opium Smuggling in 18th-Century Macao	0
“Unable to Dismiss Them”: Re-assessing the Jewish “Court Bankers” of Abbasid Baghdad, 908–932	0
Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Tehran	0
Introduction: Asian Maritime Networking Centered in Fifteenth Century Melaka	0
A Hebrew Letter on Papyrus and Its Contexts: Oxford MS Heb.d.69(P)	0
The Rights of Subjects over the Kingdom: Situating the History of Rights in Early Modern South Asia	0
Huṇḍī and Nirakh Huṇḍāwan: Indic Mercantile Instruments in the Persianate Bazaar	0
From the Archives of Asian History	0
Demonic Descents: Contests in Islamic Tribal Etiology	0
A ‘Good Qaṣba:’ Chamkanī and the Confluence of Politics, Economy and Religion in Durrānī Peshawar, 1747–1834	0
Persian in the Villages, or, the Language of Jamiat Rai’s Account Books	0
Slaves Holding Slaves: Mükâtebe Contracts, Velâ and a Probate Inventory in the Seventeenth-Century Crimean Khanate	0
The Politics of Religion in the Japanese Empire: Responses to and Reflections on Michael Laffan’s “The Forgotten Jihad under Japan”	0
‘Do You Not Bow before Heaven?’: The First Qing- Durrānī Encounter, the Tributary Non-relationship, and Disorder on a Shared Frontier	0
From Western India to Eastern Africa—the Rise of the Parsis in the 18th and 19th Centuries	0
In Defence of Arabic Palaeography	0
A Law One Hundred Years Young: The Interpretative Viability of the Ottoman Family Law in Palestine/Israel, 1917–2017	0
Translating Obligations: Tamassuk and Fārigh-khaṭṭī in the Indo-Persian World	0
Front matter	0
The Crimean Khan Şahin Giray (1777–1783): The First Modernizer of the Islamic World and his Image in Imperial and Minority Perspectives	0
Museum Cuficum Borgianum Velitris (pp. 32–37)	0
An Enduring Prestige: Land Grants in a Princely State Census	0
Mining off the Map: Fulongchang and Silver Mines in the Qing Empire’s Far Southwest	0
Curious Readers: The Bodleian’s Book of Curiosities as a Fatimid View of the World Through Ottoman Eyes	0
Social Infrastructures, Military Entrepreneurship, and the Making of the Sultan’s Court in Fifteenth-Century Cairo	0
Poetry, Magic, and the Formation of Wahhabism	0
Islamic Culture in the Khanate of Kazan: A Report Sent from Kazan in 1550 during the Reign of <Süleyman> the Lawgiver	0
The Arghūn State in Qandahar and the New World Economy, 1479–1522	0

Rural Administration, Tax-Farming, and the mutadarriks in Egypt from the Late 14th to the Early 16th Centuries	0
A Historiographical Survey of Sinophone Research into Mediterranean-East Asian Maritime Trade (1st–8th Centuries CE)	0
An Uncertain Fortune: The Northern Bay of Bengal in the Two Melaka Eras (1402–1641)	0
Praxis of Reform: The Politics of Zaytūna Student Housing in Colonial Tunis	0
Wandering Days: Two Sources in Poetry on the Abbasid Reforms of the Fiscal Schedule	0
Extraterritoriality, Nationality, and Empire in the Persianate World, 1890-1940	0
Codex Hammurabi 49–52 and the esip-tabal Contracts from Susa	0
Conditional Sales and Other Types of Loans in Qajar Iran	0
Qul Sharīf and the Narratives of Ghazān	0
The Marathi Kaulnāmā: Property, Sovereignty and Documentation in a Persianate Form	0
Transacting Politics in the Maratha Empire: An Agreement between Friends, 1795	0
On the History of the Institution of the Soyūrghāl	0
Imperial Landed Endowments (Vakıf Çiftliks) in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire: The Case of Pertevniyal Valide Sultan’s Endowments in Thessaly	0
The Sino-Kharoṣṭhī Coins of Khotan and Their Significance for This Kingdom’s Interregional Connections	0
A Space for the Subject: Tracing Garden Culture in Muslim Russia	0
Place without an Owner: Urban Modernization and Waqf Property in post-Ottoman Niš	0
Turkstroi: Soviet-Turkish Industrial Cooperation and the Dialectics of Divergence and Convergence in Interwar Statism, 1931–1941	0
Shrines Unyielding: Inter-Asian Networks and the Enduring Power of Sacred Spaces	0
Front matter	0
Modified Transliteration Chart, based on the IJMES Chart for Arabic, Persian and Turkish, and the LOC Romanization Tables for Hindi, Bengali, and Gujarati	0
Fifteenth-Century Melaka’s Networked Ports-of-Trade and Maritime Diasporas in the Bay of Bengal and Western Indian Ocean	0
Disputed Transactions: Documents, Language, and Authority in Eighteenth-Century Marwar	0
The Timurid Regions and Moghulistan through the Eyes of a Ming Diplomat: An Annotated Translation of the Xiyu fanguo zhi and Selected Poems by Chen Cheng (1415)	0
Judiciary and Wealth in the Ottoman Empire, 1689–1843	0
Tax Farming, the Provincial Council and the Nature of the Late Ottoman State	0
Requests from the Indies. Asian Agency in the VOC’s Currency Supply to Eighteenth-Century Java	0
Pirates and Pilgrims: The Plunder of the Ganj-i Sawai, the Hajj, and a Mughal Captain’s Perspective	0
Oriental Dressings, Imperial Inhalations: The Indian Hookah in British Colonial Culture	0
Introduction: The Persianate Bazaar	0
The Russian-Iranian Silk Trade during the Reign of Shāh Ṣafī I (1629–1642)	0
Regimes of Diplomacy and Law: Bengal-China Encounters in the Early Fifteenth Century	0
Sufis and Sultans in Eighteenth-Century Delhi: Re-evaluating the Political Letters of Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi (d. 1762)	0
Haijin, Melaka, and the Cham/Việt Coast	0
Divorce from Missing Husbands: Rizaeddin Fakhreddin and Reform Within Islamic Tradition in Imperial Russia	0
Transacting Business through/for Others in Early Colonial Western India: The Text, Context, and Meaning of a Mukhtār-nāma of 1821	0
Back matter	0
The Madness of the Majẕūbs: Three Sufi Hagiographies in Sixteenth-Century Mughal India	0
“Gilanis on the Move”: Mapping an Inter-Asian Society of Shiʿi Muslim Naturalists	0
From Bhauma to Vārāha: The Shifting Lineage Identity of the Kāmarūpa Rulers in Northeast India, 7th–12th Century	0