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Malissa Taylor
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
13th-18th Centuries
Islamic Studies
Ottoman Studies
Political Economy
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iran
Mashreq
Ottoman Empire
Syria
Specialties
Intel Production & Soc Practice
Soc Order (Class, Gender, Religion, Ethn)
Trends In Modernizing
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
French (intermediate)
German (elementary)
Persian (elementary)
Turkish (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2011 | History | University of California Berkeley
MA | 2003 | Near Eastern Studies | New York University
BA | 1997 | NE Stds | Princeton U
Abstracts
Damascene Agricultural Production in the late 17th and 18th centuries A Sultanic Sunnism, a Hanifized Kanun: the expansion of the sultan’s legal prerogatives (16th and 17th centuries) Suleyman the Magnificent in the eyes of early modern Damascene writers Contending visions of a ‘properly’ Islamic land law in the Ottoman Empire Ottoman property rights over the longue durée: a history of "Trickle Up" “The Sultan has a choice…”: the reversal of the Hanafi doctrine of conquered land Ibn ‘Ābidīn and the widening consensus on miri land law: where does one find the law of miri land? “When He Is Grown…” The Rights of Orphans and the Legal Character of Miri Land in the Later Ottoman Centuries