Record Details     « New Search       Brief Record Full Record MARC Record     Bibliographic Data Control Number 309761 Date and Time of Latest Transaction 20150706093811.AM General Information 150706s |||||||||b ||00||| Cataloging Source STII-DOST Local Call Number ScienceDirect Main Entry - Personal Name Miceli, Thomas   Cosgel, Metin   Ahmed, Rasha Title Statement Law, state power, and taxation in Islamic history by Metin Cosgel, Thomas Miceli and Rasha Ahmed Physical Description pages 704-717 computer file; text; 347kb Summary, Etc. The ruler’s power varied greatly in Islamic history over time and space. We explain these variations through a political economy approach to public finance, identifying factors affecting economic power and its constraints. An influential interest group capable of affecting the ruler’s power was the legal community (‘ulam¯a’). This community could increase the ruler’s ability to extract a surplus from the citizenry by conferring legitimacy, thereby lowering the cost of collecting taxes. It could also limit power through legal constraints on taxation. We show how changes in legitimacy and legal constraints affected the economic power of rulers in representative episodes of Islamic history and identify general trends and dynamic processes underlying the relationship between the state and the legal community.04 Social Subject Added Entry - Topical Term iences04State p   er04Legitim   y04Politic   economy04Islamic   aw DOST -- S Location I ScienceDirect NONPRINTS NP 13-14751 1 13-14751 Online/Download 2010-11-08 NONPRIN           Physical Location           Digital Copy Not Available          Add to Book Cart  |   Download MARC