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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2015
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| Series: | Islamic history and civilization ;
v. 112. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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 original documents will radically challenge what literary sources tell us about the Islamic world. The renaissance of Arabic papyrology has become obvious by the founding of the International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP) at the Cairo conference (2002), and by its subsequent conferences in Granada (2004), Alexandria (2006), Vienna (2009), and Tunis (2012). This volume collects papers given at the Vienna conference, including editions of previously unpublished Coptic and Arabic documents, as well as historical and linguistic studies based on documentary evidence from Early Islamic Egypt. With contributions by: Anne Boud¿́¿hors; Florence Calament; Alain Delattre; Werner Diem; Alia Hanafi; Wada¿¿d al-Qa¿¿d¿Đi¿¿; Ayman A. Shahin; Johannes Thomann and Jacques van der Vliet. For more titles about Papyrology, please click here . |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 190 pages) : color illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004282186 9004282181 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
