From Bawit to Marw : documents from the medieval Muslim world / edited by Andreas Kaplony, Daniel Potthast, Cornelia Rom̈er.

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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 This volume collects papers given at the Vienna conference, including editions of previously unpublished Coptic and Arabic documents, as well as historical and linguistic studies based on documentary evidence from Early Islamic Egypt.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 .

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-ʻAṭāʼ)? 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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