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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Xiongnu Rulers’ Residences in the Historical Records of the Han Dynasty	12
Shrines Unyielding: Inter-Asian Networks and the Enduring Power of Sacred Spaces	9
An Enduring Prestige: Land Grants in a Princely State Census	6
Arboriculture and Viticulture as Investment in the Early Islamic Levant: An Archaeobotanical and Historical Investigation of the Site of Ashkelon	6
“The Turquoise Was Brought From Chorasmia” Mining, Empire, and the People of the Steppes across the Achaemenid Northeastern Borderlands	3
Qul Sharīf and the Narratives of Ghazān	3
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
Inheritance as a God-Given Right: the Debate on the Family Waqf in 20th and 21st Century Saudi Arabia	2
The Crimean Khan Şahin Giray (1777–1783): The First Modernizer of the Islamic World and his Image in Imperial and Minority Perspectives	2
Perpetuating Property and Kinship: Matrilineal Family Waqfs in 20th-Century Colonial Malabar, South India	2
Ijtihād in Putin’s Russia? Signature Fatwas from Moscow and Kazan	1
Imperial Landed Endowments (Vakıf Çiftliks) in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire: The Case of Pertevniyal Valide Sultan’s Endowments in Thessaly	1
An Ottoman Governor’s Agent at the Sublime Porte: the Letters of Kuşçu Mahmud Ağa, 1652–7	1
Mechanisms and Performance of the Maoist Economy: a Holistic Approach, 1950–1980	1
Museum Cuficum Borgianum Velitris (pp. 32–37)	1
Reconciling Peoples and Places: Perpetual Re-interpretation in Perceptions of Social and Cultural Identities in Northeast China	1
Judiciary and Wealth in the Ottoman Empire, 1689–1843	1
Turkstroi: Soviet-Turkish Industrial Cooperation and the Dialectics of Divergence and Convergence in Interwar Statism, 1931–1941	1
“The 72 Kinds”: The Cloth Classic, the Jiangnan Cotton Finishing Sector, and the Expansion of Cotton Dyeing in the Qing Dynasty	1
Shirin’s Petition: an Enslaved Hazara Woman’s Quest for Justice in the Late 19th Century	1
Corrigendum	1
An Almost Ordinary Town? Three Ninth- / Fifteenth-Century Fiscal Edicts at the Friday Mosque of Ardabīl	1
Back matter	1
Social Infrastructures, Military Entrepreneurship, and the Making of the Sultan’s Court in Fifteenth-Century Cairo	1

The Unofficial Russo-Qing Trade in Northern Xinjiang and the Eastern Kazakh Steppe in the First Half of the 19th Century	1
Muslim Industrial Workers in California: Two Tatar Memoirs from the Eve of the Great War	1
From Western India to Eastern Africa—the Rise of the Parsis in the 18th and 19th Centuries	1
Cash Waqfs and Commercial Capital: Evidence from Ottoman-Venetian Trade (16th Century)	1
Fifteenth-Century Melaka’s Networked Ports-of-Trade and Maritime Diasporas in the Bay of Bengal and Western Indian Ocean	1
Consumption and Supply of Wood in Hangzhou/Lin’an and Its Seaport in View of the Southern Song Energy Crisis and Interregional Dependencies	1
Slaves Holding Slaves: Mükâtebe Contracts, Velâ and a Probate Inventory in the Seventeenth-Century Crimean Khanate	0
Timurid Asia: Two or Three Things That I Do Not Know about It	0
“Gilanis on the Move”: Mapping an Inter-Asian Society of Shiʿi Muslim Naturalists	0
The Melaka Sultanate, c.1400–1528	0
Spying Balkan Orthodox Merchant: Trade, Protectionism, and the Danube Salt Monopoly, 1828–1868	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
New Perspectives on Human and Divine Judgment in Ancient Egypt: Interplays of Ritual, Literary, and Judicial Spheres	0
Numismatic Sources for the Bani Khalid Emirate in Local and Regional Context, 1669–1795	0
Islamic Culture in the Khanate of Kazan: A Report Sent from Kazan in 1550 during the Reign of <Süleyman> the Lawgiver	0
A ‘Missing’ Source on Eighteenth-Century Central Asia Rediscovered: the Istanbul Manuscript of the Works of Sayyid Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Marghīnānī	0
A ‘Good Qaṣba:’ Chamkanī and the Confluence of Politics, Economy and Religion in Durrānī Peshawar, 1747–1834	0
From Reluctance to Reliance: Opium Smuggling in 18th-Century Macao	0
Preaching and Preening: A Ṭūṭī’s Book in Persianate India	0
Meat and Religious Difference in Colonial India: the Courage and Contradictions of Sayyid Ahmad Khan	0
Meat Together: South Asian Muslim Visions of Sovereignty in the Age of Minority	0
The Watermills of Mosul in the Ottoman Period	0
Place without an Owner: Urban Modernization and Waqf Property in post-Ottoman Niš	0
Back matter	0
Building Empire, Creating Markets: Commercial Policies and Practices in Imperial Qin (221–207 BCE)	0
Wrestling with Community and Social Change in Early Modern Western India: the Jyesthimallas and the Mallapurāṇa, c. 1674	0
From the Tian Shan to Crimea: Dynamics of Plague Spread during the Early Stages of the Black Death, 1338–46	0
A Law One Hundred Years Young: The Interpretative Viability of the Ottoman Family Law in Palestine/Israel, 1917–2017	0
‘Do You Not Bow before Heaven?’: The First Qing- Durrānī Encounter, the Tributary Non-relationship, and Disorder on a Shared Frontier	0
An Issue of Intercultural Communication: An Unknown Letter from the “Sultan of Babylon” to Pope Innocent VIII	0
Taming the Qizilbash and Quelling Their Echoes: Ottoman Appropriations of ʿAli	0
Reassessing the Family Waqf: New Insights on the Relation Between Family, Wealth, and Islamic Doctrine	0
The Sabbatical Year Legislation and Temple Land Possession: Remarks on Socio-economic Legislation of the Hebrew Bible during the Persian Period	0
A Historiographical Survey of Sinophone Research into Mediterranean-East Asian Maritime Trade (1st–8th Centuries CE)	0
Archaeological Perspectives on Contacts between Cairo and Eastern Ethiopia in the 12th to 15th Centuries	0
Haijin, Melaka, and the Cham/Việt Coast	0
In Defence of Arabic Palaeography	0
New Perspectives on Aḥmad Shāh Durrānī’s Encounter with the Qing Empire in the Shāhnāma-yi Aḥmadiyya	0
Meat Together: South Asian Muslim Visions of Sovereignty in the Age of Minority	0
How to Research the Multiethnic Empire and Its Colonial Legacy: a Response Paper to “Reconciling Peoples and Places” by Loretta Kim	0
China as Clime: a Response to Evrim Binbaş	0
Gender and Property Relations in Eighteenth-Century Inner Mongolia: Records of Marriage Transactions from Qanggin-Banner (Ordos)	0
Rural Administration, Tax-Farming, and the mutadarriks in Egypt from the Late 14th to the Early 16th Centuries	0
Societal Conditions and Conditioning Associated with State Building Projects in Ancient Mesopotamia	0
Demonic Descents: Contests in Islamic Tribal Etiology	0
Time as Method	0
Tax Farming, the Provincial Council and the Nature of the Late Ottoman State	0
A Temporal and Gender-Based Analysis on the Ottoman Cash Waqfs in Southeast Europe, 1506–1921	0
Praxis of Reform: The Politics of Zaytūna Student Housing in Colonial Tunis	0

Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Tehran	0
Introduction: Asian Maritime Networking Centered in Fifteenth Century Melaka	0
Islamic Dissent in a Dagestani Kolkhoz: a Research Note	0
The Russian-Iranian Silk Trade during the Reign of Shāh Ṣafī I (1629–1642)	0
The Wonders of Creation and the Destruction of Wonders: Reading the Landscape in Shirazi’s Tazkirat al-mulūk	0
Community and State Violence in Middle Bronze Age Mesopotamia	0
Front matter	0
Continuity and Change at Millennial Scale: The Holy Sites of Serindia	0
What Do Sources Say about Agricultural Slavery (and Why Don’t They Say More)? A Study on Legal Sources for Early Islamic Ifrīqiya	0
Ottoman Raiders (Akıncıs) as a Driving Force of Early Ottoman Conquest of the Balkans and the Slavery-Based Economy	0
The Rights of Subjects over the Kingdom: Situating the History of Rights in Early Modern South Asia	0
A Hebrew Letter on Papyrus and Its Contexts: Oxford MS Heb.d.69(P)	0
The Curious Case of the Islamic Journeymen: Questions and Texts toward a Comparative Study of Guilds	0
Buṭrus al-Bustānī and the Oration Committee of 1859	0
Rama’s Ayodhya: Creating and Contesting Hindu Identity	0
The Re/Construction and Repair of Franciscan Churches in Ottoman Bosnia during the Nineteenth Century: Old Regulations, New Challenges	0
Codex Hammurabi 49–52 and the esip-tabal Contracts from Susa	0
Divorce from Missing Husbands: Rizaeddin Fakhreddin and Reform Within Islamic Tradition in Imperial Russia	0
Front matter	0
The Making of Center-Periphery Relations: Shāh ʿAbbās I’s Abolition of the Tamghā Tax in Gilan	0
The Sino-Kharoṣṭhī Coins of Khotan and Their Significance for This Kingdom’s Interregional Connections	0
Uneasy Partnership: A Note on Armenian-Danish Commercial Collaboration in the Indian Ocean, ca. 1700	0
Soft Power of Empire: Muscovy’s Turkic Engagement with the Persianate World	0
Backdating the Criticism and Abolition of Family Waqf: Examples from Zaydī Yemen	0
Front matter	0
The Lords of Kawkabān and the Transformation of the State in Early Modern Yemen (15th–17th Centuries)	0
An Uncertain Fortune: The Northern Bay of Bengal in the Two Melaka Eras (1402–1641)	0
Sufis and Sultans in Eighteenth-Century Delhi: Re-evaluating the Political Letters of Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi (d. 1762)	0
Back matter	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
From Bhauma to Vārāha: The Shifting Lineage Identity of the Kāmarūpa Rulers in Northeast India, 7th–12th Century	0
Iqṭāʿ, suyūrghāl, tarkhan? Immunity and Decentred Power in Late Medieval Eurasia	0
Back matter	0
The Price of Progress: Modernisation and Traditional Crafts and Cities in China	0
The View from Hansi: Caste and Social Flux in the Tashrīḥ al-Aqwām	0