Documents and the History of the Early Islamic World

Documents and the History of the Early Islamic World
edited by Alexander T. Schubert and Petra M. Sijpesteijn, Leiden University

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.
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Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Notes on Editions and Dates
Hugh Kennedy, Introduction


ADMINISTRATION & GOVERNMENT
Anne Regourd, A Late Ayyubid Report of Death
Found at Quṣayr al-Qadīm (Egypt)
Jairus Banaji, On the Identity of Shahrālānyōzān in the Greek and Middle Persian Papyri from Egypt
Alain Delattre, Le monastère de Baouît et l’administration arabe
Shaun O’Sullivan, Fiscal Evidence from the Nessana Papyri

COMMERCE & TRAVEL
Anna Selander, Travel in Coptic Documentary Texts
Frédéric Bauden, Le transport de marchandises et de personnes sur le Nil en 823 A.H./1420 È.C.

LANGUAGE & CULTURE
Mostafa El-Abbadi, P.Cair.Arab. III 167: A Discussion of the Akhmīm Declaration Rachel Stroumsa, Greek and Arabic in Nessana
Sebastian Richter, The Master Spoke: “Take One of ‘the Sun’ and One Unit of Almulgam.” Hitherto Unnoticed Coptic Papyrological Evidence for Early Arabic Alchemy
Tascha Vorderstrasse, Terms for Vessels in Arabic and Coptic Documentary Texts and their Archaeological and Ethnographic Correlates
Mat Malczycki, A Quranic Text on Papyrus: P.Utah.Atiya.Ar. 342

NEW EDITIONS & COLLECTIONS
R.G. Khoury, Les papyrus arabes de Heidelberg disparus. Essai de reconstruction et d’analyse
Alia Hanafi, Two New Arabic Editions: A Land Survey from Ihnās and Ḥadīths Concerning Funerary Practice
Nicole Hansen, Sunshine Wine on the Nile
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