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

Article	Citations
Shrines Unyielding: Inter-Asian Networks and the Enduring Power of Sacred Spaces	9
Xiongnu Rulers’ Residences in the Historical Records of the Han Dynasty	9
“The Turquoise Was Brought From Chorasmia” Mining, Empire, and the People of the Steppes across the Achaemenid Northeastern Borderlands	6
An Enduring Prestige: Land Grants in a Princely State Census	6
Qul Sharīf and the Narratives of Ghazān	5
Arboriculture and Viticulture as Investment in the Early Islamic Levant: An Archaeobotanical and Historical Investigation of the Site of Ashkelon	3
The Arghūn State in Qandahar and the New World Economy, 1479–1522	3
Perpetuating Property and Kinship: Matrilineal Family Waqfs in 20th-Century Colonial Malabar, South India	2
Imperial Landed Endowments (Vakıf Çiftliks) in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire: The Case of Pertevniyal Valide Sultan’s Endowments in Thessaly	2
The Crimean Khan Şahin Giray (1777–1783): The First Modernizer of the Islamic World and his Image in Imperial and Minority Perspectives	2
Inheritance as a God-Given Right: the Debate on the Family Waqf in 20th and 21st Century Saudi Arabia	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
An Ottoman Governor’s Agent at the Sublime Porte: the Letters of Kuşçu Mahmud Ağa, 1652–7	1
Social Infrastructures, Military Entrepreneurship, and the Making of the Sultan’s Court in Fifteenth-Century Cairo	1
Mechanisms and Performance of the Maoist Economy: a Holistic Approach, 1950–1980	1
Cash Waqfs and Commercial Capital: Evidence from Ottoman-Venetian Trade (16th Century)	1
Reconciling Peoples and Places: Perpetual Re-interpretation in Perceptions of Social and Cultural Identities in Northeast China	1
Time as Method	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
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
Museum Cuficum Borgianum Velitris (pp. 32–37)	1
A ‘Good Qaṣba:’ Chamkanī and the Confluence of Politics, Economy and Religion in Durrānī Peshawar, 1747–1834	1
Crafting a Categorical Ayutthaya: Ethnic Labeling, Administrative Reforms, and Social Organization in an Early Modern Entrepôt	1

The Unofficial Russo-Qing Trade in Northern Xinjiang and the Eastern Kazakh Steppe in the First Half of the 19th Century	1
Ijtihād in Putin’s Russia? Signature Fatwas from Moscow and Kazan	1
Shirin’s Petition: an Enslaved Hazara Woman’s Quest for Justice in the Late 19th Century	1
From Western India to Eastern Africa—the Rise of the Parsis in the 18th and 19th Centuries	1
Fifteenth-Century Melaka’s Networked Ports-of-Trade and Maritime Diasporas in the Bay of Bengal and Western Indian Ocean	1
Rural Administration, Tax-Farming, and the mutadarriks in Egypt from the Late 14th to the Early 16th Centuries	1
A Temporal and Gender-Based Analysis on the Ottoman Cash Waqfs in Southeast Europe, 1506–1921	0
Haijin, Melaka, and the Cham/Việt Coast	0
Gender and Property Relations in Eighteenth-Century Inner Mongolia: Records of Marriage Transactions from Qanggin-Banner (Ordos)	0
New Perspectives on Aḥmad Shāh Durrānī’s Encounter with the Qing Empire in the Shāhnāma-yi Aḥmadiyya	0
A ‘Missing’ Source on Eighteenth-Century Central Asia Rediscovered: the Istanbul Manuscript of the Works of Sayyid Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Marghīnānī	0
Backdating the Criticism and Abolition of Family Waqf: Examples from Zaydī Yemen	0
Divorce from Missing Husbands: Rizaeddin Fakhreddin and Reform Within Islamic Tradition in Imperial Russia	0
Back matter	0
When the Other Speaks: Ismāʿīl Gasprinskii and the Concept of Islamic Reformation	0
Preaching and Preening: A Ṭūṭī’s Book in Persianate India	0
Slaves Holding Slaves: Mükâtebe Contracts, Velâ and a Probate Inventory in the Seventeenth-Century Crimean Khanate	0
Praxis of Reform: The Politics of Zaytūna Student Housing in Colonial Tunis	0
The Lords of Kawkabān and the Transformation of the State in Early Modern Yemen (15th–17th Centuries)	0
A Law One Hundred Years Young: The Interpretative Viability of the Ottoman Family Law in Palestine/Israel, 1917–2017	0
Sufis and Sultans in Eighteenth-Century Delhi: Re-evaluating the Political Letters of Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi (d. 1762)	0
The Melaka Sultanate, c.1400–1528	0
From the Tian Shan to Crimea: Dynamics of Plague Spread during the Early Stages of the Black Death, 1338–46	0
Ottoman Raiders (Akıncıs) as a Driving Force of Early Ottoman Conquest of the Balkans and the Slavery-Based Economy	0
The Madness of the Majẕūbs: Three Sufi Hagiographies in Sixteenth-Century Mughal India	0
Timurid Asia: Two or Three Things That I Do Not Know about It	0
In Defence of Arabic Palaeography	0
From Bhauma to Vārāha: The Shifting Lineage Identity of the Kāmarūpa Rulers in Northeast India, 7th–12th Century	0
Codex Hammurabi 49–52 and the esip-tabal Contracts from Susa	0
The Rights of Subjects over the Kingdom: Situating the History of Rights in Early Modern South Asia	0
The Sino-Kharoṣṭhī Coins of Khotan and Their Significance for This Kingdom’s Interregional Connections	0
Buṭrus al-Bustānī and the Oration Committee of 1859	0
From Reluctance to Reliance: Opium Smuggling in 18th-Century Macao	0
The Re/Construction and Repair of Franciscan Churches in Ottoman Bosnia during the Nineteenth Century: Old Regulations, New Challenges	0
Taming the Qizilbash and Quelling Their Echoes: Ottoman Appropriations of ʿAli	0
An Uncertain Fortune: The Northern Bay of Bengal in the Two Melaka Eras (1402–1641)	0
Place without an Owner: Urban Modernization and Waqf Property in post-Ottoman Niš	0
A Space for the Subject: Tracing Garden Culture in Muslim Russia	0
Soft Power of Empire: Muscovy’s Turkic Engagement with the Persianate World	0
Pavilions to Celebrate Honest Officials: An Authenticity Dilemma in Fifteenth-Century China	0
How to Research the Multiethnic Empire and Its Colonial Legacy: a Response Paper to “Reconciling Peoples and Places” by Loretta Kim	0
Front matter	0
Continuity and Change at Millennial Scale: The Holy Sites of Serindia	0
Back matter	0
Building Empire, Creating Markets: Commercial Policies and Practices in Imperial Qin (221–207 BCE)	0
The View from Hansi: Caste and Social Flux in the Tashrīḥ al-Aqwām	0
The Watermills of Mosul in the Ottoman Period	0
A Historiographical Survey of Sinophone Research into Mediterranean-East Asian Maritime Trade (1st–8th Centuries CE)	0
Wrestling with Community and Social Change in Early Modern Western India: the Jyesthimallas and the Mallapurāṇa, c. 1674	0
Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Tehran	0

Hui Corporate Strategies and Islamic Cultural Capital and in Qing Guangzhou	0
The Sabbatical Year Legislation and Temple Land Possession: Remarks on Socio-economic Legislation of the Hebrew Bible during the Persian Period	0
Front matter	0
“Gilanis on the Move”: Mapping an Inter-Asian Society of Shiʿi Muslim Naturalists	0
The Curious Case of the Islamic Journeymen: Questions and Texts toward a Comparative Study of Guilds	0
The Wrong Side of the River: a Cantonese Emigrant Community in the Nineteenth-Century Mobility Transition	0
Islamic Culture in the Khanate of Kazan: A Report Sent from Kazan in 1550 during the Reign of <Süleyman> the Lawgiver	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
China as Clime: a Response to Evrim Binbaş	0
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The Russian-Iranian Silk Trade during the Reign of Shāh Ṣafī I (1629–1642)	0
Uneasy Partnership: A Note on Armenian-Danish Commercial Collaboration in the Indian Ocean, ca. 1700	0
Tax Farming, the Provincial Council and the Nature of the Late Ottoman State	0
Front matter	0
Back matter	0
Capitalism in Khiva: Cash Waqf or Cash Loan?	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
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
Community and State Violence in Middle Bronze Age Mesopotamia	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
Archaeological Perspectives on Contacts between Cairo and Eastern Ethiopia in the 12th to 15th Centuries	0
Oriental Dressings, Imperial Inhalations: The Indian Hookah in British Colonial Culture	0
Reassessing the Family Waqf: New Insights on the Relation Between Family, Wealth, and Islamic Doctrine	0
Poetry, Magic, and the Formation of Wahhabism	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