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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
El Niño and the Nomads: Global Climate, Local Environment, and the Crisis of Pastoralism in Late Ottoman Kurdistan	6
Arboriculture and Viticulture as Investment in the Early Islamic Levant: An Archaeobotanical and Historical Investigation of the Site of Ashkelon	5
Applying Digital Methods to the Study of a Late Ottoman City: A Social and Spatial Analysis of Political Partisanship in Gaza	4
Competing Sovereignties in Eighteenth-Century South Asia: Afghan Claims to Kingship	3
The Origin of the Sogdian Civic Communities (nāf)	3
Slave Trade Dynamics in Abbasid Egypt: The Papyrological Evidence	2
Ottoman Raiders (Akıncıs) as a Driving Force of Early Ottoman Conquest of the Balkans and the Slavery-Based Economy	2
When the Other Speaks: Ismāʿīl Gasprinskii and the Concept of Islamic Reformation	2
Şeyhulislâm Feyzullah Efendi, the Ḥanafī Mufti of Jerusalem and the Rise of the Provincial Fatāwā Collections in the Eighteenth Century	2
The Melaka Sultanate, c.1400–1528	2
The Diver’s New Papers: Wealth, People, and Property in a Persian Gulf Bazaar	1
The Use of Social Isolation (inqiṭāʿ) by Jewish Women in Medieval Egypt	1
Old Routes, New Dreams: Reminiscences of the Southern Silk Road and Bengal-China Connectivities	1
Ottoman Archival Documents on the Shrines of Karbala, Najaf, and the Hejaz (1660s-1720s): Endowment Wars, the Spoils System, and Iranian Pilgrims	1
Royal Purple Industry in Lod during the Late Roman Period as Reflected in the Lod Mosaic	1
Disintegration as an Integrative Process: Revisiting Palestinian Cohesiveness from the Late Ottoman Era through the End of the British Mandate	1
Archaeological Perspectives on Contacts between Cairo and Eastern Ethiopia in the 12th to 15th Centuries	1
Regionalization without Vernacularization: The Place of Persian in Eighteenth-Century Sindh	1
Seeing Like a Khedivate: Taxing Endowed Agricultural Land, Proofs of Ownership, and the Land Administration in Egypt, 1869	1
“The Turquoise Was Brought From Chorasmia” Mining, Empire, and the People of the Steppes across the Achaemenid Northeastern Borderlands	1
Capitalism in Khiva: Cash Waqf or Cash Loan?	1
Ijtihād in Putin’s Russia? Signature Fatwas from Moscow and Kazan	1
Aḥmad Yasavī and the Ismāʿīlīs of Badakhshān: Towards a New Social History of Sufi-Shīʿī Relations in Central Asia	1
Making Sense of Central Asia in Pre-Petrine Russia	1
History in High Places: Tatarna Monastery and the Pindus Mountains	1

China and the Two Romes. The 1081 and 1091 “Fulin” Embassies to the Song Empire	1
Pavilions to Celebrate Honest Officials: An Authenticity Dilemma in Fifteenth-Century China	1
On Folklore Archives and Heritage Claims: the Manas Epic in Kyrgyzstan	1
Turkmen Literacy and Turkmen Identity before the Soviets: the Ravnaq al-Islām in Its Literary and Social Context	1
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Curious Readers: The Bodleian’s Book of Curiosities as a Fatimid View of the World Through Ottoman Eyes	0
“Melaka” in Chinese Texts: Archivalisation and Macro Patterns Related to Records of Melaka in the Ming and Qing Periods (Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)	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
The Arghūn State in Qandahar and the New World Economy, 1479–1522	0
An Uncertain Fortune: The Northern Bay of Bengal in the Two Melaka Eras (1402–1641)	0
Requests from the Indies. Asian Agency in the VOC’s Currency Supply to Eighteenth-Century Java	0
Rural Administration, Tax-Farming, and the mutadarriks in Egypt from the Late 14th to the Early 16th Centuries	0
Wandering Days: Two Sources in Poetry on the Abbasid Reforms of the Fiscal Schedule	0
Divorce from Missing Husbands: Rizaeddin Fakhreddin and Reform Within Islamic Tradition in Imperial Russia	0
Extraterritoriality, Nationality, and Empire in the Persianate World, 1890-1940	0
The Rights of Subjects over the Kingdom: Situating the History of Rights in Early Modern South Asia	0
The Madness of the Majẕūbs: Three Sufi Hagiographies in Sixteenth-Century Mughal India	0
Qul Sharīf and the Narratives of Ghazān	0
Transacting Politics in the Maratha Empire: An Agreement between Friends, 1795	0
Persian in the Villages, or, the Language of Jamiat Rai’s Account Books	0
On the History of the Institution of the Soyūrghāl	0
The Sino-Kharoṣṭhī Coins of Khotan and Their Significance for This Kingdom’s Interregional Connections	0
‘Do You Not Bow before Heaven?’: The First Qing- Durrānī Encounter, the Tributary Non-relationship, and Disorder on a Shared Frontier	0
A Space for the Subject: Tracing Garden Culture in Muslim Russia	0
From Western India to Eastern Africa—the Rise of the Parsis in the 18th and 19th Centuries	0
Remarks on Petrushevskii’s Article K istorii instituta soiurgala	0
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Disputed Transactions: Documents, Language, and Authority in Eighteenth-Century Marwar	0
In Defence of Arabic Palaeography	0
Museum Cuficum Borgianum Velitris (pp. 32–37)	0
The Crimean Khan Şahin Giray (1777–1783): The First Modernizer of the Islamic World and his Image in Imperial and Minority Perspectives	0
Letter to the Editor: Response to Rahul Govind	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
Islamic Culture in the Khanate of Kazan: A Report Sent from Kazan in 1550 during the Reign of <Süleyman> the Lawgiver	0
Flexible Forms of Contracts: Transactions through Fictitious Settlements (ṣulḥ/muṣālaḥa) in Iran	0
Time as Method	0
From Reluctance to Reliance: Opium Smuggling in 18th-Century Macao	0
The Russian-Iranian Silk Trade during the Reign of Shāh Ṣafī I (1629–1642)	0
Haijin, Melaka, and the Cham/Việt Coast	0
Crafting a Categorical Ayutthaya: Ethnic Labeling, Administrative Reforms, and Social Organization in an Early Modern Entrepôt	0
Regimes of Diplomacy and Law: Bengal-China Encounters in the Early Fifteenth Century	0
Agrarian and Mercantile Ideologies in Western Han	0
A Hebrew Letter on Papyrus and Its Contexts: Oxford MS Heb.d.69(P)	0
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Conditional Sales and Other Types of Loans in Qajar Iran	0
From the Archives of Asian History	0
From Bhauma to Vārāha: The Shifting Lineage Identity of the Kāmarūpa Rulers in Northeast India, 7th–12th Century	0
Slaves Holding Slaves: Mükâtebe Contracts, Velâ and a Probate Inventory in the Seventeenth-Century Crimean Khanate	0
Imperial Landed Endowments (Vakıf Çiftliks) in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire: The Case of Pertevniyal Valide Sultan’s Endowments in Thessaly	0

A Comment on Michael Laffan’s JESHO Lecture	0
Building Empire, Creating Markets: Commercial Policies and Practices in Imperial Qin (221–207 BCE)	0
Place without an Owner: Urban Modernization and Waqf Property in post-Ottoman Niš	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
Social Infrastructures, Military Entrepreneurship, and the Making of the Sultan’s Court in Fifteenth-Century Cairo	0
Turkstroi: Soviet-Turkish Industrial Cooperation and the Dialectics of Divergence and Convergence in Interwar Statism, 1931–1941	0
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Shrines Unyielding: Inter-Asian Networks and the Enduring Power of Sacred Spaces	0
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Mantra: a Review Essay on Islam in Soviet Central Asia	0
Integrating Faith and Profit: The Religio-Commercial Network Spanning China and Japan, 1100-1270	0
The Promiscuous Life of a Genre for the Dead: The Marthiya as an Instrument of Community Construction in Muslim Russia	0
Introduction: The Persianate Bazaar	0
Poetry, Magic, and the Formation of Wahhabism	0
Continuity and Change at Millennial Scale: The Holy Sites of Serindia	0
The Watermills of Mosul in the Ottoman Period	0
Preaching and Preening: A Ṭūṭī’s Book in Persianate India	0
Introduction: Asian Maritime Networking Centered in Fifteenth Century Melaka	0
Praxis of Reform: The Politics of Zaytūna Student Housing in Colonial Tunis	0
“Unable to Dismiss Them”: Re-assessing the Jewish “Court Bankers” of Abbasid Baghdad, 908–932	0
Transacting Business through/for Others in Early Colonial Western India: The Text, Context, and Meaning of a Mukhtār-nāma of 1821	0
Codex Hammurabi 49–52 and the esip-tabal Contracts from Susa	0
Huṇḍī and Nirakh Huṇḍāwan: Indic Mercantile Instruments in the Persianate Bazaar	0
Paper Currency, Banking, and Islamic Monetary Debates in Late Ottoman and Early Saudi Arabia	0
The Marathi Kaulnāmā: Property, Sovereignty and Documentation in a Persianate Form	0
A ‘Good Qaṣba:’ Chamkanī and the Confluence of Politics, Economy and Religion in Durrānī Peshawar, 1747–1834	0
From the Tian Shan to Crimea: Dynamics of Plague Spread during the Early Stages of the Black Death, 1338–46	0
The Forgotten Jihad under Japan: Muslim Reformism and the Promise of Indonesian Independence	0
The Politics of Religion in the Japanese Empire: Responses to and Reflections on Michael Laffan’s “The Forgotten Jihad under Japan”	0
The Lords of Kawkabān and the Transformation of the State in Early Modern Yemen (15th–17th Centuries)	0
An Issue of Intercultural Communication: An Unknown Letter from the “Sultan of Babylon” to Pope Innocent VIII	0
Judiciary and Wealth in the Ottoman Empire, 1689–1843	0
A Law One Hundred Years Young: The Interpretative Viability of the Ottoman Family Law in Palestine/Israel, 1917–2017	0
Fifteenth-Century Melaka’s Networked Ports-of-Trade and Maritime Diasporas in the Bay of Bengal and Western Indian Ocean	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
Hui Corporate Strategies and Islamic Cultural Capital and in Qing Guangzhou	0
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Translating Obligations: Tamassuk and Fārigh-khaṭṭī in the Indo-Persian World	0