From Bawit to Marw : documents from the medieval Muslim world

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: Kaplony, Andreas (Editor), Potthast, Daniel (Editor), Rom̈er, Cornelia (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2015
Series:Islamic history and civilization ; v. 112.
Subjects:
Manuscripts, Arabic (Papyri) > Congresses.
Islamic civilization > Sources > Congresses.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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.

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