Bankers and Politics: The Network of Shi'i Moneychangers in Eighth-Ninth Century Kufa and their Role in the Shi'i Community.
The article studies the network of moneychangers in the Shi'i community of Kufa during the eighth-ninth centuries. It argues that apart from exchanging currencies, some of these moneychangers acted as financial agents for the imams, collecting funds from their following, receiving donations on their...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Persianate Studies Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 1 - 22 |
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