Synopses & Reviews
A fascinating account of the official methods of communication employed in the pre-modern Near East
About the Author
Adam Silverstein is Lecturer in Islamic History at the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford.
Table of Contents
Part I. The Pre-Islamic Background: 1: Pre-Islamic Postal Systems; Part II. Conquest and Centralisation - The Arabs: 2: al-Barid: The Early Islamic Postal System; 3: Diwan al-Barid: The Middle Abbasid Period; Part III. Conquest and Centralisation - The Mongols: 4: The Mongol Yam and its Legacy; 5: The Mamluk Barid; Conclusions; Appendix: Distances and Speeds of the Barid; Bibliography.