From Bawit to Marw : documents from the medieval Muslim world /

The dry climate of Egypt has preserved about 130,000 Arabic documents, mostly on papyrus and paper, covering the period from the 640s to 1517. Up to now, historical research has mostly relied on literary sources; yet, as in study of the history of the Ancient World and medieval Europe, using origina...

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Corporate Author: International Society for Arabic Papyrology Conference
Other Authors: Bouvarel-Boud'hors, Anne (Contributor), Kaplony, Andreas (Editor), Potthast, Daniel (Editor), Rom̈er, Cornelia (Editor), Römer, Cornelia (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
Leiden Boston : 2015
Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : 2015
Series:Islamic history and civilization ; Volume 112
Islamic history and civilization ; v. 112
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • Quoted Editions
  • Plates
  • Chapter 1. Three Remarkable Arabic Documents from the Heidelberg Papyrus Collection (First-Third/Seventh-Ninth Centuries) (Diem)
  • Chapter 2. Pour une étude des archives coptes de Medinet el-Fayoum (Calament and Boud'hors)
  • Chapter 3. Death Dates in Umayyad Stipends Registers (Dīwān al-ʿAṭāʼ)? The Testimony of the Papyri and the Literary Sources (al-Qāḍī)
  • Chapter 4. Remarques sur la taxation au monastère de Baouît au début de l'époque arabe (Delattre)
  • Chapter 5. Schreibübung und Schriftübungszettel zwischen Theorie und Praxis (Shahin)
  • Chapter 6. An Arabic Ephemeris for the Year 931-932CE (Thomann)
  • Chapter 7. Nekloni (al-Naqlūn) and the Coptic Account Book British Library Or. 13885 (van der Vliet)
  • Chapter 8. Two Arabic Documents from Cairo and Copenhagen (Hanafi)
  • General Index
  • Front Matter / Andreas Kaplony , Daniel Potthast and Cornelia Römer
  • Three Remarkable Arabic Documents from the Heidelberg Papyrus Collection (First-Third/Seventh-Ninth Centuries) / Werner Diem
  • Pour une étude des archives coptes de Medinet el-Fayoum / Florence Calament and Anne Boud’hors
  • Death Dates in Umayyad Stipends Registers (Dīwān al-ʿAṭāʾ)? The Testimony of the Papyri and the Literary Sources / Wadād al-Qāḍī
  • Remarques sur la taxation au monastère de Baouît au début de l’époque arabe / Alain Delattre
  • Schreibübung und Schriftübungszettel zwischen Theorie und Praxis / Ayman A. Shahin
  • An Arabic Ephemeris for the Year 931–932CE / Johannes Thomann
  • Nekloni (al-Naqlūn) and the Coptic Account Book British Library Or. 13885 / Jacques van der Vliet
  • Two Arabic Documents from Cairo and Copenhagen / Alia Hanafi
  • General Index / Andreas Kaplony , Daniel Potthast and Cornelia Römer