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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Xiongnu Rulers’ Residences in the Historical Records of the Han Dynasty	7
An Enduring Prestige: Land Grants in a Princely State Census	5
Shrines Unyielding: Inter-Asian Networks and the Enduring Power of Sacred Spaces	4
On Folklore Archives and Heritage Claims: the Manas Epic in Kyrgyzstan	3
Arboriculture and Viticulture as Investment in the Early Islamic Levant: An Archaeobotanical and Historical Investigation of the Site of Ashkelon	3
Qul Sharīf and the Narratives of Ghazān	2
Imperial Landed Endowments (Vakıf Çiftliks) in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire: The Case of Pertevniyal Valide Sultan’s Endowments in Thessaly	2
The Arghūn State in Qandahar and the New World Economy, 1479–1522	2
“Melaka” in Chinese Texts: Archivalisation and Macro Patterns Related to Records of Melaka in the Ming and Qing Periods (Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)	2
The Crimean Khan Şahin Giray (1777–1783): The First Modernizer of the Islamic World and his Image in Imperial and Minority Perspectives	2
“The Turquoise Was Brought From Chorasmia” Mining, Empire, and the People of the Steppes across the Achaemenid Northeastern Borderlands	2
Flexible Forms of Contracts: Transactions through Fictitious Settlements (ṣulḥ/muṣālaḥa) in Iran	2
Turkstroi: Soviet-Turkish Industrial Cooperation and the Dialectics of Divergence and Convergence in Interwar Statism, 1931–1941	1
Judiciary and Wealth in the Ottoman Empire, 1689–1843	1
Corrigendum	1
Disputed Transactions: Documents, Language, and Authority in Eighteenth-Century Marwar	1
Huṇḍī and Nirakh Huṇḍāwan: Indic Mercantile Instruments in the Persianate Bazaar	1
Integrating Faith and Profit: The Religio-Commercial Network Spanning China and Japan, 1100-1270	1
An Ottoman Governor’s Agent at the Sublime Porte: the Letters of Kuşçu Mahmud Ağa, 1652–7	1
Shirin’s Petition: an Enslaved Hazara Woman’s Quest for Justice in the Late 19th Century	1
Persian in the Villages, or, the Language of Jamiat Rai’s Account Books	1
Ijtihād in Putin’s Russia? Signature Fatwas from Moscow and Kazan	1
Social Infrastructures, Military Entrepreneurship, and the Making of the Sultan’s Court in Fifteenth-Century Cairo	1
Back matter	1
Mechanisms and Performance of the Maoist Economy: a Holistic Approach, 1950–1980	1

From the Archives of Asian History	1
The Diver’s New Papers: Wealth, People, and Property in a Persian Gulf Bazaar	0
Mining off the Map: Fulongchang and Silver Mines in the Qing Empire’s Far Southwest	0
Oriental Dressings, Imperial Inhalations: The Indian Hookah in British Colonial Culture	0
Buṭrus al-Bustānī and the Oration Committee of 1859	0
Ottoman Raiders (Akıncıs) as a Driving Force of Early Ottoman Conquest of the Balkans and the Slavery-Based Economy	0
Codex Hammurabi 49–52 and the esip-tabal Contracts from Susa	0
The Re/Construction and Repair of Franciscan Churches in Ottoman Bosnia during the Nineteenth Century: Old Regulations, New Challenges	0
Back matter	0
Front matter	0
Timurid Asia: Two or Three Things That I Do Not Know about It	0
Hui Corporate Strategies and Islamic Cultural Capital and in Qing Guangzhou	0
Divorce from Missing Husbands: Rizaeddin Fakhreddin and Reform Within Islamic Tradition in Imperial Russia	0
Praxis of Reform: The Politics of Zaytūna Student Housing in Colonial Tunis	0
The Marathi Kaulnāmā: Property, Sovereignty and Documentation in a Persianate Form	0
Museum Cuficum Borgianum Velitris (pp. 32–37)	0
Fifteenth-Century Melaka’s Networked Ports-of-Trade and Maritime Diasporas in the Bay of Bengal and Western Indian Ocean	0
Soft Power of Empire: Muscovy’s Turkic Engagement with the Persianate World	0
Transacting Politics in the Maratha Empire: An Agreement between Friends, 1795	0
Pavilions to Celebrate Honest Officials: An Authenticity Dilemma in Fifteenth-Century China	0
Şeyhulislâm Feyzullah Efendi, the Ḥanafī Mufti of Jerusalem and the Rise of the Provincial Fatāwā Collections in the Eighteenth Century	0
Time as Method	0
Place without an Owner: Urban Modernization and Waqf Property in post-Ottoman Niš	0
From the Tian Shan to Crimea: Dynamics of Plague Spread during the Early Stages of the Black Death, 1338–46	0
Uneasy Partnership: A Note on Armenian-Danish Commercial Collaboration in the Indian Ocean, ca. 1700	0
Front matter	0
The Watermills of Mosul in the Ottoman Period	0
A Space for the Subject: Tracing Garden Culture in Muslim Russia	0
Ottoman Archival Documents on the Shrines of Karbala, Najaf, and the Hejaz (1660s-1720s): Endowment Wars, the Spoils System, and Iranian Pilgrims	0
In Defence of Arabic Palaeography	0
Islamic Culture in the Khanate of Kazan: A Report Sent from Kazan in 1550 during the Reign of <Süleyman> the Lawgiver	0
Continuity and Change at Millennial Scale: The Holy Sites of Serindia	0
Curious Readers: The Bodleian’s Book of Curiosities as a Fatimid View of the World Through Ottoman Eyes	0
“Gilanis on the Move”: Mapping an Inter-Asian Society of Shiʿi Muslim Naturalists	0
The Russian-Iranian Silk Trade during the Reign of Shāh Ṣafī I (1629–1642)	0
Poetry, Magic, and the Formation of Wahhabism	0
The Wrong Side of the River: a Cantonese Emigrant Community in the Nineteenth-Century Mobility Transition	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
Tax Farming, the Provincial Council and the Nature of the Late Ottoman State	0
The Melaka Sultanate, c.1400–1528	0
A Temporal and Gender-Based Analysis on the Ottoman Cash Waqfs in Southeast Europe, 1506–1921	0
Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Tehran	0
Demonic Descents: Contests in Islamic Tribal Etiology	0
New Perspectives on Human and Divine Judgment in Ancient Egypt: Interplays of Ritual, Literary, and Judicial Spheres	0
Crafting a Categorical Ayutthaya: Ethnic Labeling, Administrative Reforms, and Social Organization in an Early Modern Entrepôt	0
Wandering Days: Two Sources in Poetry on the Abbasid Reforms of the Fiscal Schedule	0
When the Other Speaks: Ismāʿīl Gasprinskii and the Concept of Islamic Reformation	0
From Western India to Eastern Africa—the Rise of the Parsis in the 18th and 19th Centuries	0
Sufis and Sultans in Eighteenth-Century Delhi: Re-evaluating the Political Letters of Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi (d. 1762)	0

Transacting Business through/for Others in Early Colonial Western India: The Text, Context, and Meaning of a Mukhtār-nāma of 1821	0
Preaching and Preening: A Ṭūṭī’s Book in Persianate India	0
An Uncertain Fortune: The Northern Bay of Bengal in the Two Melaka Eras (1402–1641)	0
Regimes of Diplomacy and Law: Bengal-China Encounters in the Early Fifteenth Century	0
A Historiographical Survey of Sinophone Research into Mediterranean-East Asian Maritime Trade (1st–8th Centuries CE)	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
Front matter	0
Taming the Qizilbash and Quelling Their Echoes: Ottoman Appropriations of ʿAli	0
Introduction: Asian Maritime Networking Centered in Fifteenth Century Melaka	0
From Reluctance to Reliance: Opium Smuggling in 18th-Century Macao	0
Extraterritoriality, Nationality, and Empire in the Persianate World, 1890-1940	0
Front matter	0
The Rights of Subjects over the Kingdom: Situating the History of Rights in Early Modern South Asia	0
Capitalism in Khiva: Cash Waqf or Cash Loan?	0
The Curious Case of the Islamic Journeymen: Questions and Texts toward a Comparative Study of Guilds	0
Haijin, Melaka, and the Cham/Việt Coast	0
An Issue of Intercultural Communication: An Unknown Letter from the “Sultan of Babylon” to Pope Innocent VIII	0
Remarks on Petrushevskii’s Article K istorii instituta soiurgala	0
On the History of the Institution of the Soyūrghāl	0
Community and State Violence in Middle Bronze Age Mesopotamia	0
The Sino-Kharoṣṭhī Coins of Khotan and Their Significance for This Kingdom’s Interregional Connections	0
The Lords of Kawkabān and the Transformation of the State in Early Modern Yemen (15th–17th Centuries)	0
A Hebrew Letter on Papyrus and Its Contexts: Oxford MS Heb.d.69(P)	0
Gender and Property Relations in Eighteenth-Century Inner Mongolia: Records of Marriage Transactions from Qanggin-Banner (Ordos)	0
The Madness of the Majẕūbs: Three Sufi Hagiographies in Sixteenth-Century Mughal India	0
How to Research the Multiethnic Empire and Its Colonial Legacy: a Response Paper to “Reconciling Peoples and Places” by Loretta Kim	0
Cash Waqfs and Commercial Capital: Evidence from Ottoman-Venetian Trade (16th Century)	0
Reconciling Peoples and Places: Perpetual Re-interpretation in Perceptions of Social and Cultural Identities in Northeast China	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
The Promiscuous Life of a Genre for the Dead: The Marthiya as an Instrument of Community Construction in Muslim Russia	0
A ‘Good Qaṣba:’ Chamkanī and the Confluence of Politics, Economy and Religion in Durrānī Peshawar, 1747–1834	0
Conditional Sales and Other Types of Loans in Qajar Iran	0
Rural Administration, Tax-Farming, and the mutadarriks in Egypt from the Late 14th to the Early 16th Centuries	0
Slaves Holding Slaves: Mükâtebe Contracts, Velâ and a Probate Inventory in the Seventeenth-Century Crimean Khanate	0
Archaeological Perspectives on Contacts between Cairo and Eastern Ethiopia in the 12th to 15th Centuries	0
Old Routes, New Dreams: Reminiscences of the Southern Silk Road and Bengal-China Connectivities	0
Back matter	0
Building Empire, Creating Markets: Commercial Policies and Practices in Imperial Qin (221–207 BCE)	0
‘Do You Not Bow before Heaven?’: The First Qing- Durrānī Encounter, the Tributary Non-relationship, and Disorder on a Shared Frontier	0
Wrestling with Community and Social Change in Early Modern Western India: the Jyesthimallas and the Mallapurāṇa, c. 1674	0
Back matter	0
China as Clime: a Response to Evrim Binbaş	0
From Bhauma to Vārāha: The Shifting Lineage Identity of the Kāmarūpa Rulers in Northeast India, 7th–12th Century	0
Introduction: The Persianate Bazaar	0