From al-Andalus to Khurasan : documents from the medieval Muslim world / edited by Petra M. Sijpesteijn ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sijpesteijn, Petra.

Series:

Islamic history and civilization ; v. 66.

Islamic history and civilization. Studies and texts, 0929-2403 ; v. 66

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic civilization--Sources.

Islamic civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As in many areas of pre-modern history, the study of medieval Islamic history has been critically hindered by the lack of available evidence. Unlike many parallel fields, however, the shortage of contemporary documentary evidence for medieval Islam has less to do with the survival of documents and archives as with their accessibility. A rich documentary legacy survives, but because of its inaccessibility and unfamiliarity to all but the most specialised scholars in the field, it has remained sadly underutilised. This volume contributes to the redressing of that problem. It collects papers given at the conference "Documents and the History of the Early Islamic Mediterranean World," including editions of unpublished documents and historical studies, which make use of documentary evidence from al-Andalus, Sicily, Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, Syria and Khurasan. For more titles about Papyrology, please click here .

Contents:

Preliminary Materials / P. Sijpesteijn

Romanced Documents, Bilingual Documents And Books Of Habices / Camilo Álvarez De Morales

From Muslim To Christian Hands: The Documents From The Municipal Archive Of Granada / Emilio Molina López and María Del Carmen Jiménez Mata

Water And Farm Estates In The Arabic Documents Of The Naṣrid Kingdom Of Granada / Francisco Vidal Castro

Notaries And Their Formulas: The Legacies From The University Library Of Granada / Amalia Zomeño

Trusting The Text As Far As We Canthrow The Scribe:Further Notes On Reading A Bilingual Jarīdat Al-Ḥudūd From The Royal Dīwān Of Norman Sicily / Alex Metcalfe

The Economics Of State Formation In Early Islamic Egypt / Gladys Frantz-Murphy

L’Apport De Papyrus Postérieurs À La Conquête Arabe Pour La Datation Des Ostraca Coptes De La Tombe Tt29 / Anne Boud’hors

The Documentary Background To The History Of The Patriarchs Of Ps.-Sawīrus Ibn Al-Muqaffa’ CA. 750 969 C.E. / Frank R. Trombley

An Early Arabic Business Letter / Alia Hanafi

The Archival Mind In Early Islamic Egypt: Two Arabic Papyri / Petra M. Sijpesteijn

A Tenth-Century List Of Payments Or Poll Tax Collecting On Paper From The Montserrat Collection / Sofía Torallas Tovar

Newly Discovered Arabic Documents From Early Abbasid Khurasan / Geoffrey Khan

Epigraphy And The Emergence Of Arab Identity / Robert G. Hoyland

Index / P. Sijpesteijn.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-91705-2

9786611917050

90-474-1173-0

OCLC:

437239273

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004155671.i-252 DOI