Documents and the history of the early Islamic world : 3rd conference of the International Society for Arabic Papyrology, Alexandria, 23-26 March 2006

Documents and the History of the Early Islamic World presents new Greek, Arabic and Coptic material from the seventh to the fifteenth centuries C.E. from Egypt and Palestine and explores its rich potential for historical analysis. Contents Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Notes on Editions and Dates Chapter 1. Introduction (Kennedy) Administration & Government Chapter 2. A Late Ayyubid Report of Death Found at Quṣayr al-Qadīm (Regourd) Chapter 3. On the Identity of Shahrālānyōzān in the Greek and Middle Persian Papyri from Egypt (Banaji) Chapter 4. Le monastère de Baouît et l’administration arabe (Delattre) Chapter 5. Fiscal Evidence from the Nessana Papyri (O’Sullivan) Commerce & Travel Chapter 6. Travel in Coptic Documentary Texts (Selander) Chapter 7. Le transport de marchandises et de personnes sur le Nil en 823A.H./1420È.C. (Bauden) Language & Culture Chapter 8. P.Cair.Arab III 167: A Discussion of the Akhmīm Declaration (El-Abbadi) Chapter 9. Greek and Arabic in Nessana (Stroumsa) Chapter 10. The Master Spoke: “Take One of ‘the Sun’ and One Unit of Almulgam.” Hitherto Unnoticed Coptic Papyrological Evidence for Early Arabic Alchemy (Richter) Chapter 11. Terms for Vessels in Arabic and Coptic Documentary Texts and Their Archaeological and Ethnographic Correlates (Vorderstrasse) Chapter 12. A Qurānic Amulet on Papyrus: P.Utah.Ar. 342 (Malczycki) New Editions & Collections Chapter 13. Les papyrus arabes de Heidelberg disparus. Essai de reconstruction et d’analyse (Khoury) Chapter 14. Two New Arabic Editions: A Land Survey from Ihnās and Ḥadīths Concerning Funerary Practice (Hanafi) Chapter 15. Sunshine Wine on the Nile (Hansen) Index Historians have long lamented the lack of contemporary documentary sources for the Islamic middle ages and the inhibiting effect this has had on our understanding of this critically important period. Although the field is richly served by surviving evidence, much of it is hard to locate, difficult to access, and philologically intractable. Presenting a mixture of historical studies and new editions of Greek, Arabic and Coptic material from the seventh to the fifteenth century C.E. from Egypt and Palestine, Documents and the History of the Early Islamic World explores the untapped wealth of documentary sources available in collections around the world and shows how this exciting material can be used for historical analysis. Contributors include: Hugh Kennedy, Anne Regourd, Jairus Banaji, Alain Delattre, Shaun O'Sullivan, Anna Selander, Frédéric Bauden, Mostafa El-Abbadi, Rachel Stroumsa, Sebastian Richter, Tascha Vorderstrasse, Matt Malczycki, R.G. Khoury, Nicole Hansen, and Alia Hanafi. For more titles about Papyrology, please click here

Historians have long lamented the lack of contemporary documentary sources for the Islamic middle ages and the inhibiting effect this has had on our understanding of this critically important period. Although the field is richly served by surviving evidence, much of it is hard to locate, difficult to access, and philologically intractable. Presenting a mixture of historical studies and new editions of Greek, Arabic and Coptic material from the seventh to the fifteenth century C.E. from Egypt and Palestine, Documents and the History of the Early Islamic World explores the untapped wealth of documentary sources available in collections around the world and shows how this exciting material can be used for historical analysis.

Historians have long lamented the lack of contemporary documentary sources for the Islamic middle ages and the inhibiting effect this has had on our understanding of this critically important period. Although the field is richly served by surviving evidence, much of it is hard to locate, difficult to access, and philiogically intractable. Presenting a mixture of historical studies and new editions of Greek, Arabic and Coptic material from the seventh to the fifteenth century C.E. from Egypt and Palestine, this book explores the untapped wealth of documentary sources available in collections around the world and shows how this exciting material can be used for historical analysis