OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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
“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
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
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
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
The Lords of Kawkabān and the Transformation of the State in Early Modern Yemen (15th–17th Centuries)	0
Front matter	0
A Hebrew Letter on Papyrus and Its Contexts: Oxford MS Heb.d.69(P)	0
How to Research the Multiethnic Empire and Its Colonial Legacy: a Response Paper to “Reconciling Peoples and Places” by Loretta Kim	0
The Curious Case of the Islamic Journeymen: Questions and Texts toward a Comparative Study of Guilds	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
Remarks on Petrushevskii’s Article K istorii instituta soiurgala	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
The Sino-Kharoṣṭhī Coins of Khotan and Their Significance for This Kingdom’s Interregional Connections	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
Gender and Property Relations in Eighteenth-Century Inner Mongolia: Records of Marriage Transactions from Qanggin-Banner (Ordos)	0
Back matter	0
The Madness of the Majẕūbs: Three Sufi Hagiographies in Sixteenth-Century Mughal India	0
Old Routes, New Dreams: Reminiscences of the Southern Silk Road and Bengal-China Connectivities	0
Wrestling with Community and Social Change in Early Modern Western India: the Jyesthimallas and the Mallapurāṇa, c. 1674	0
Cash Waqfs and Commercial Capital: Evidence from Ottoman-Venetian Trade (16th Century)	0
‘Do You Not Bow before Heaven?’: The First Qing- Durrānī Encounter, the Tributary Non-relationship, and Disorder on a Shared Frontier	0
From Bhauma to Vārāha: The Shifting Lineage Identity of the Kāmarūpa Rulers in Northeast India, 7th–12th Century	0
The Promiscuous Life of a Genre for the Dead: The Marthiya as an Instrument of Community Construction in Muslim Russia	0
China as Clime: a Response to Evrim Binbaş	0
Mining off the Map: Fulongchang and Silver Mines in the Qing Empire’s Far Southwest	0
The Diver’s New Papers: Wealth, People, and Property in a Persian Gulf Bazaar	0
Archaeological Perspectives on Contacts between Cairo and Eastern Ethiopia in the 12th to 15th Centuries	0
Ottoman Raiders (Akıncıs) as a Driving Force of Early Ottoman Conquest of the Balkans and the Slavery-Based Economy	0
Buṭrus al-Bustānī and the Oration Committee of 1859	0
Building Empire, Creating Markets: Commercial Policies and Practices in Imperial Qin (221–207 BCE)	0
The Re/Construction and Repair of Franciscan Churches in Ottoman Bosnia during the Nineteenth Century: Old Regulations, New Challenges	0
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Divorce from Missing Husbands: Rizaeddin Fakhreddin and Reform Within Islamic Tradition in Imperial Russia	0
Introduction: The Persianate Bazaar	0
Timurid Asia: Two or Three Things That I Do Not Know about It	0
The Marathi Kaulnāmā: Property, Sovereignty and Documentation in a Persianate Form	0
Oriental Dressings, Imperial Inhalations: The Indian Hookah in British Colonial Culture	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
Codex Hammurabi 49–52 and the esip-tabal Contracts from Susa	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
Front matter	0
Time as Method	0
Place without an Owner: Urban Modernization and Waqf Property in post-Ottoman Niš	0
Hui Corporate Strategies and Islamic Cultural Capital and in Qing Guangzhou	0
Front matter	0
Praxis of Reform: The Politics of Zaytūna Student Housing in Colonial Tunis	0
Uneasy Partnership: A Note on Armenian-Danish Commercial Collaboration in the Indian Ocean, ca. 1700	0

Ottoman Archival Documents on the Shrines of Karbala, Najaf, and the Hejaz (1660s-1720s): Endowment Wars, the Spoils System, and Iranian Pilgrims	0
Museum Cuficum Borgianum Velitris (pp. 32–37)	0
A Space for the Subject: Tracing Garden Culture in Muslim Russia	0
Continuity and Change at Millennial Scale: The Holy Sites of Serindia	0
Transacting Politics in the Maratha Empire: An Agreement between Friends, 1795	0
Islamic Culture in the Khanate of Kazan: A Report Sent from Kazan in 1550 during the Reign of <Süleyman> the Lawgiver	0
The Russian-Iranian Silk Trade during the Reign of Shāh Ṣafī I (1629–1642)	0
“Gilanis on the Move”: Mapping an Inter-Asian Society of Shiʿi Muslim Naturalists	0
From the Tian Shan to Crimea: Dynamics of Plague Spread during the Early Stages of the Black Death, 1338–46	0
The Wrong Side of the River: a Cantonese Emigrant Community in the Nineteenth-Century Mobility Transition	0
The Watermills of Mosul in the Ottoman Period	0
A Law One Hundred Years Young: The Interpretative Viability of the Ottoman Family Law in Palestine/Israel, 1917–2017	0
Tax Farming, the Provincial Council and the Nature of the Late Ottoman State	0
In Defence of Arabic Palaeography	0
The Melaka Sultanate, c.1400–1528	0
New Perspectives on Human and Divine Judgment in Ancient Egypt: Interplays of Ritual, Literary, and Judicial Spheres	0
Curious Readers: The Bodleian’s Book of Curiosities as a Fatimid View of the World Through Ottoman Eyes	0
Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Tehran	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
Poetry, Magic, and the Formation of Wahhabism	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
Translating Obligations: Tamassuk and Fārigh-khaṭṭī in the Indo-Persian World	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
A Temporal and Gender-Based Analysis on the Ottoman Cash Waqfs in Southeast Europe, 1506–1921	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
Demonic Descents: Contests in Islamic Tribal Etiology	0
Taming the Qizilbash and Quelling Their Echoes: Ottoman Appropriations of ʿAli	0
Crafting a Categorical Ayutthaya: Ethnic Labeling, Administrative Reforms, and Social Organization in an Early Modern Entrepôt	0
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Extraterritoriality, Nationality, and Empire in the Persianate World, 1890-1940	0
From Western India to Eastern Africa—the Rise of the Parsis in the 18th and 19th Centuries	0
From Reluctance to Reliance: Opium Smuggling in 18th-Century Macao	0
Capitalism in Khiva: Cash Waqf or Cash Loan?	0
The Rights of Subjects over the Kingdom: Situating the History of Rights in Early Modern South Asia	0
An Issue of Intercultural Communication: An Unknown Letter from the “Sultan of Babylon” to Pope Innocent VIII	0
Haijin, Melaka, and the Cham/Việt Coast	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
On the History of the Institution of the Soyūrghāl	0
Introduction: Asian Maritime Networking Centered in Fifteenth Century Melaka	0
Community and State Violence in Middle Bronze Age Mesopotamia	0