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Revoir la conférence "Sources of Life. Food and water sustainability in Abbasid Baghdad"

08/04/2022
IEA de Paris
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Conférence en anglais de Hugh Kennedy (SOAS, Londres) et Maaike van Berkel (Radboud University, Nijmegen, Pays-Bas), dans le cadre du colloque Sources et méthodes interdisciplinaires pour l'étude des sociétés sans archives : Bagdad à l'époque prémoderne organisé le 8 juin 2022 par Nassima Neggaz, New college of Florida, chercheuse-résidente 2021-22 de l'IEA de Paris, et Vanessa Van Renterghem, Inalco, CERMOM.

Managing access to clean water and large quantities of grain and other foodstuffs was essential for the development of an exceedingly large city such as Baghdad under the Abbasids. With half a million or more inhabitants this was not an easy task. Still we do not fully understand how this was achieved. Existing historical approaches still often frame the institutional arrangements of Middle Eastern cities in relation to the premodern European city and emphasize the institutional weakness of the former. Yet how, then, did these cities support their numerous populations under challenging circumstances? In this combined presentation Hugh Kennedy will discuss the availability of river transport while Maaike van Berkel investigates the multiple water systems that functioned in Abbasid Baghdad and the source(s) of their sustainability.

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Conférence dans le cadre du colloque organisé par Nassima Neggaz, résidente 2021-2022 de l'IEA de Paris, et Vanessa Van Renterghem, Inalco, CERMOM
08 Jui 2022 18:00
08 Jui 2022 19:30
Paris
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