In the making
Job Browser
What people did for a living in Islamic history, from the judge and the scribe to the physician, the builder and the weaver: each job with the people who held it and the places where it was done.
The browser grows as records are researched. Job records in this build: 19, of which 19 have an article. People with a job recorded: 1,856. Counts are as of the last build.
Browse by domain
Each job belongs to one domain. Each card lists the job records in it and the people recorded in them.
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Governance & Law
Job records: 6 · People recorded: 915
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Court & Administration
Job records: 5 · People recorded: 154
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Scholarship & Teaching
Job records: 2 · People recorded: 592
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Faith & Preaching
Job records: 0 · People recorded: 0
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War & Command
Job records: 0 · People recorded: 0
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Media & Performance
Job records: 0 · People recorded: 0
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Sport
Job records: 0 · People recorded: 0
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Land & Water
Job records: 0 · People recorded: 0
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Crafts shelf
The crafts are jobs like the others. This shelf lists the hand trades the museum has records for, and it grows from the sources and the museum's objects.
Arts & Letters
A to Z
Every job record, in the alphabetical order of its name in this language.
- Architect (mi'mar) Crafts, Building & Making People recorded: 11
- Astronomer Sciences & Numbers People recorded: 32
- Calligrapher (khattat) Arts & Letters People recorded: 109
- Chamberlain (hajib) Court & Administration People recorded: 2
- Chancery secretary (katib) Court & Administration People recorded: 4
- Hadith scholar (muhaddith) Scholarship & Teaching People recorded: 257
- Jurist (faqih) Governance & Law People recorded: 802
- Kazasker (chief military judge) Court & Administration People recorded: 5
- Merchant (tajir) Trade, Travel & the Sea People recorded: 95
- Mufti (jurisconsult) Governance & Law People recorded: 15
- Muhtasib (market inspector) Governance & Law People recorded: 0
- Physician (tabib) Medicine & Care People recorded: 96
- Postmaster and intelligence chief (sahib al-barid) Governance & Law People recorded: 1
- Qadi (judge) Governance & Law People recorded: 127
- Shaykh al-Islam Governance & Law People recorded: 4
- Teacher (mu'allim / mudarris) Scholarship & Teaching People recorded: 336
- Treasurer (hazinedar) Court & Administration People recorded: 5
- Vizier Court & Administration People recorded: 138
- Waqf trustee (mutawalli) Patronage & Public Life People recorded: 0
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