Adam Silverstein is Lecturer in Islamic History at the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford.

"Adam Silverstein's work on postal systems (i.e., the barid) and communications in the medieval Islamic world goes a long way toward correcting one of the deficiencies in the field.... Silverstein is to be commended for this ambitious project; it is a welcome and much needed addition to the field. Students and scholars of the political, economic, and administrative history of medieval Islam will benefit greatly from the foundation he has provided." - International Journal of Middle East Studies

• 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-Barīd: the early Islamic postal system; 3. Dīwān al-Barīd: the Middle Abbasid period; Part III. Conquest and Centralisation - The Mongols: 4. The Mongol Yām and its legacy; 5. The Mamluk Barīd; Conclusions; Appendix: distances and speeds of the Barīd; Bibliography; Index.

Adam Silverstein is Lecturer in Islamic History at the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford.

"Adam Silverstein's work on postal systems (i.e., the barid) and communications in the medieval Islamic world goes a long way toward correcting one of the deficiencies in the field.... Silverstein is to be commended for this ambitious project; it is a welcome and much needed addition to the field. Students and scholars of the political, economic, and administrative history of medieval Islam will benefit greatly from the foundation he has provided." - International Journal of Middle East Studies

• 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-Barīd: the early Islamic postal system; 3. Dīwān al-Barīd: the Middle Abbasid period; Part III. Conquest and Centralisation - The Mongols: 4. The Mongol Yām and its legacy; 5. The Mamluk Barīd; Conclusions; Appendix: distances and speeds of the Barīd; Bibliography; Index.

Adam Silverstein is Lecturer in Islamic History at the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford.

"Adam Silverstein's work on postal systems (i.e., the barid) and communications in the medieval Islamic world goes a long way toward correcting one of the deficiencies in the field.... Silverstein is to be commended for this ambitious project; it is a welcome and much needed addition to the field. Students and scholars of the political, economic, and administrative history of medieval Islam will benefit greatly from the foundation he has provided." - International Journal of Middle East Studies

• 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-Barīd: the early Islamic postal system; 3. Dīwān al-Barīd: the Middle Abbasid period; Part III. Conquest and Centralisation - The Mongols: 4. The Mongol Yām and its legacy; 5. The Mamluk Barīd; Conclusions; Appendix: distances and speeds of the Barīd; Bibliography; Index.