Postal Systems in the Pre-Modern Islamic World

ISBN: 9780521147613 出版年：2007 页码：230 Adam J Silverstein Cambridge University Press

List of maps Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction 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 Index.