
Sahar Sayed
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Works at Supreme Council For Culture Cairo-Egypt.
PhD in Islamic history, department of history, faculty of arts, Cairo university.
Works at Supreme Council For Culture Cairo-Egypt.
PhD in Islamic history, department of history, faculty of arts, Cairo university.
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The prices of grains and foodstuff were not stable. They were influenced by the political and administrative conditions of the state, flooding of the Nile, epidemics and the monopolistic policy practiced by senior merchants.
The Fatimid state attempted to curb high prices through controlling the currency weight, tightening its control over markets to prevent monopoly in particular and establishing shops for selling grains and bread in order to stabilize or lower their prices.
High prices had severe effects on the overall conditions of the states in terms of destabilization of security, pillaging of markets and handicrafts shops, deterioration of trade, spread of epidemics, and the rise of death rates. Furthermore, people were forced to sell their properties for the cheapest price to obtain food, especially as the salaries and wages of most state employees were disproportionate with the high prices.
* The outline of the study is as follows:
Introductory: "the economic state in Egypt before the Fatimids," which discuses the financial status of Egypt, and the economic crises in Alikhchidi age
the study consists of four chapters:
Chapter I "the affecting factors on prices and wages"
chapter ll " the financial policy of the Fatimid state"
Chapter III "the prices in the Fatimid age,"
Chapter IV, "the wages in the Fatimid age"
and the Conclusion which contains the results of the study!
الباب الاول : تجارة مصر فى البحر حتى بداية القرن الثانى الهجرى
الباب الثانى : تجارة البحر الاحمر زمن الطولونيين والاخشيديين
الباب الثالث : الفاطميون وتجارة البحر الاحمر
الباب الرابع : الايوبيون وتجارة البحر الاحمر
الباب الخامس : المنشآت التجارية والنظم المالية