RT Article
T1 The Papyrus Industry in the Early Islamic Era
JF Journal of the economic and social history of the Orient
VO 54
IS 2
SP 185
OP 202
A1 Malczycki, W. Matt
LA English
YR 2011
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1817457969
AB Abstract The article challenges Karabacek’s and Grohmann’s classic thesis that the Abbāsid state maintained a monopoly over all Egyptian papyrus production. As demonstrated here, there is no evidence for state monopoly. Documents show that the Abbāsids maintained a contract with Egyptian papyrus producers which secured a high price for the producers in return for the best quality papyrus. There is neither evidence nor reason to believe that this contract was forced on the manufacturers by the government. Another free market provided lower quality papyrus at lower prices.
K1 Papyrus
K1 Free Market
K1 Iraq
K1 early Islamic Egypt
K1 state monopoly
DO 10.1163/156852011X586813