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Title Papyrology and the history of early Islamic Egypt / edited by Petra M. Sijpesteijn and Lennart Sundelin
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 270 pages) : illustrations
Series Islamic history and civilization. Studies and texts, 0929-2403 ; v. 55
Islamic history and civilization ; v. 55. 0929-2403
Contents Introduction : papyrology and the study of early Islamic Egypt / Lennart Sundelin -- Papyrology and the utilization of Coptic sources / S.J. Clackson -- Two unpublished paper documents and a papyrus / Alia Hanafi -- L'apport spécialement important de la papyrologie dans la transmission et la codification des plus anciennes versions des Mille et une nuits et d'autres livers des deux premiers siècles islamiques / Raif Georges Khoury -- O. Crum Ad. 15 and the emergence of the Arabic words in Coptic legal documents / Tonio Sebastian Richter -- Travel and trade on the river / Petra M. Sijpesteijn -- Documentary evidence for the early history of the Barīd / Adam Silverstein -- Egyptian lexical interference in the Greek or Byzantine and early Islamic Egypt / Sofia Torallas Tovar -- Sawīrus ibn al-Muqaffaʻ and the Christians of Ummayyad Egypt : war and society in documentary context / Frank R. Trombley -- Town quarters in Greek, Roman, Byzantine and early Arab Egypt / K.A. Worp
Summary Annotation Tens of thousands of documents dating form the late Byzantine and early Islamic periods have been found in Egypt. These texts, written on papyrus and a variety of other materials, in Greek, Coptic Egyptian, and Arabic, offer a unique, but underutilized resource for the study of a society experiencing a profound transformation, this volume collects papers given at the conference "Documentary Evidence and the History of Early Islamic Egypt", including editions of previously unpublished Greek, Coptic, and Arabic documents, historical and linguistic studies which make use of documentary evidence, a discussion of the importance of Arabic literary papyri, and an introduction to papyrology and its relevance for the study of this period of Egyptian history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject HISTORY.
History -- Sources
Geschiedbronnen.
SUBJECT Egypt -- History -- 640-1250 -- Sources -- Congresses
Subject Egypt
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
History
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Sijpesteijn, Petra.
Sundelin, Lennart.
ISBN 9789047405474
9047405471
1433705850
9781433705854
9789004138865
9004138862
1280859563
9781280859564