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The project is devoted to collecting the quantifiable data related to the Medieval Islamic World, approximately between 650-1517 A.D., in areas considered as diagnostic for measuring economic performance, such as commodity prices, population size, money and coinage, measures and weights, wages, taxes and tax rates. Data compilation will comprise aggregation of specific features and assemblages from published sources. In the second stage we will collect data related to these areas directly from the Arabic sources. The objectives are to allow further statistical manipulation, cross-checking the Islamic data with similar data bases for other economies, study the wide spectrum of the medieval Islamic economic performance on both individual and comparative levels, and bring the research into line with scholarly work undertaken on other pre-modern economies.