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Shaping a Muslim state : the world of a mid-eighth-century Egyptian official
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sijpesteijn, Petra, Author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in Byzantium.
- Oxford studies in Byzantium Shaping a Muslim state
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Paleography, Arabic.
- Manuscripts, Arabic (Papyri).
- ʻAbd Allāh ibn Asʻad, active 8th century--Correspondence.
- ʻAbd Allāh ibn Asʻad.
- Nājid ibn Muslim, active 8th century--Correspondence.
- Nājid ibn Muslim.
- Egypt--History--640-1250.
- Egypt.
- Egypt--History--640-1250--Sources.
- Egypt--Civilization--638-1798.
- Egypt--Civilization--638-1798--Sources.
- Egypt--Religion--640-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 524 pages, 40 unnumbered plates) : illustrations, maps.
- Other Title:
- Shaping a Muslim state: the world of a mid-eighth-century Egyptian official
- Oxford studies in Byzantium
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume provides a synthetic study of the political, social, and economic processes which formed early Islamic Egypt. Looking at a corpus of previously unknown Arabic papyrus letters, Sijpesteijn examines the reasons for the success of the early Arab conquests and the transition from the pre-Islamic Byzantine system to an Arab/Muslim state.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version
- ISBN:
- 0-19-175813-2
- 0-19-967390-X
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