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Christians and Muslims in early Islamic Egypt / edited by Lajos Berkes

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Book
Contributor:
Berkes, Lajos, 1985- editor.
American Society of Papyrologists, publisher.
Series:
American studies in papyrology.
American studies in papyrology
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Islam--Relations--Egypt--Christianity.
Islam.
Christianity and other religions--Egypt--Islam.
Christianity and other religions.
Manuscripts (Papyri)--Egypt.
Manuscripts (Papyri).
Egypt--History--640-1250.
Egypt.
Egypt--Social life and customs.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (261 pages)
Place of Publication:
Durham, NC : American Society of Papyrologists, 2022.
Summary:
This volume collects studies exploring the relationship of Christians and Muslims in everyday life in Early Islamic Egypt (642-10th c.) focusing mainly, but not exclusively on administrative and social history. The contributions concentrate on the papyrological documentation preserved in Greek, Coptic, and Arabic. By doing so, this book transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries and offers results based on a holistic view of the documentary material. The articles of this volume discuss various aspects of change and continuity from Byzantine to Islamic Egypt and offer also the (re)edition of 23 papyrus documents in Greek, Coptic, and Arabic. The authors provide a showcase of recent papyrological research on this under-studied, but dynamically evolving field.After an introduction by the editor of the volume that outlines the most important trends and developments of the period, the first two essays shed light on Egypt as part of the Caliphate. The following six articles, the bulk of the volume, deal with the interaction and involvement of the Egyptian population with the new Muslim administrative apparatus. The last three studies of the volume focus on naming practices and language change.
Contents:
Intro
Contents
Editorial Remarks
Illustrations
Tables
Figures
Introduction: A Papyrological Perspective on Christians and Muslims in Early Islamic Egypt
Bibliography
Literary Source
Secondary Sources and Papyrus Editions
Egypt and the Caliphate
Imperial Arabic: Some Notes on Visual Symbolism
The Rise and Nature of Arabic Documentary Culture
Imperial Arabic: Reading and Viewing
Arabic and Figurative Imagery
Concluding Remarks
Abbreviations of Quoted Editions
Imperial Policies and the Organization of the War Fleet in Early Islamic Egypt
1. Egypt's Fleet under the Rightly Guided Caliphs
2. The Sufyanid Fleet
3. The Marwanid Fleet
4. Epilogue: Initial Disinterest and Regained Interest under the Early Abbasids
1. Primary Sources
2. Studies
Adapting to New Realities: Administration and Bureaucracy
Babylone-Fust.āt. dans les sources papyrologiques coptes
1. État de la documentation
1.1. Méthodes de recherche
1.2. Nombre de textes
1.3. Graphies
1.4. Types de textes
1.5. Provenances et dates
1.6. Babylone et Fust.āt.
2. Aller et séjourner à Babylone
2.1. Pour le service de l'administration arabe
2.1.1 Travail obligatoire (corvée)
2.1.2 Réquisitions
2.1.3 Paiement des taxes et gestion des contribuables
2.2. Aller à Babylone pour raisons commerciales
2.3. Aller à Babylone en visite
3. À propos de l'expression « Dieu nous a guidés, nous sommes allés à Babylone »
Conclusion
Annexe : Liste des documents coptes mentionnant Babylone
Bibliographie
The Overseers of the Barns of Babylon: Two Arabic-Greek Receipts
P.Christ.Musl. 1: A Bilingual Receipt from the Overseers of the Barns at Babylon: SPP 8.1345 Reconsidered.
P.Christ.Musl. 2: Another Bilingual Receipt from the Overseers of the Barns at Babylon: An Edition of P.Heid.Inv. Arab. 304
P.Christ.Musl. 3: Appendix: Greek Writing Exercises from an Early Islamic Administrative Office (P.Heid.Inv. G 2160)
À propos de H.ayyān b. Surayˇg: Un surintendant des finances égyptien de l'époque omeyyade
1. Un patronyme mal établi
2. La carrière de H.ayyān b. Suraygˇ
3. P.Christ.Musl. 4-5 : Deux lettres arabes du surintendant H.ayyān b. Suraygˇ
P.Christ.Musl. 4 : Lettre du surintendant H.ayyān b. Suraygˇ au pagarque de l'Hermopolite ʿAbd Allāh b. Šurayh.
P.Christ.Musl. 5: Lettre du surintendant H.ayyān b. Suraygˇ
Sources littéraires
Sources papyrologiques et secondaires
Nouveaux textes sur les pagarques du Fayoum au viiie siècle
1. La place du Fayoum dans le cursus honorum ?
2. De ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAbd al-Rah.mān à Yazīd b. Ḫālid : nouvel essai de chrono logie des pagarques du Fayoum au viiie siècle
3. Éditions de textes coptes et arabes relatifs aux pagarques du Fayoum P.Christ.Musl. 6 : Début d'une lettre d'Abū l-H.akam à Yahyā b. Hilāl
P.Christ.Musl. 7 : Lettre de Yahyā b. Hilāl aux deux responsables de la s.adaqa
P.Christ.Musl. 8-10 : Trois lettres de Yah.yā b. Hilāl à Maymūn b. Maysara
P.Christ.Musl. 8 : Lettre de Yah.yā b. Hilāl à Maymūn b. Maysara (?)
P.Christ.Musl. 9 : Fin d'une lettre de Yah.yā b. Hilāl (?) à Maymūn b. Maysara (?)
P.Christ.Musl. 10 : Début d'une lettre de Yah.yā b. Hilāl à Maymūn b. Maysara
P.Christ.Musl. 11-14 : Trois exemplaires d'une quittance pour la .sadaqa et un prescrit de lettre
P.Christ.Musl. 11 : Copie presque complète d'une quittance pour la .sadaqa
P.Christ.Musl. 12 : Copie partielle d'une quittance pour la .sadaqa (?)
P.Christ.Musl. 13 : Copie partielle d'une quittance pour la .sadaqa (?).
P.Christ.Musl. 14 : Début d'une lettre
P.Christ.Musl. 15 : Début d'un document grec émis au nom de Yah.yā b. Hilāl
P.Christ.Musl. 16 : Lettre copte adressée à Yah.yā b. Hilāl
P.Christ.Musl. 17 : Rappel à l'ordre adressé par Maymūn b. Ka'b à un contribuable
P.Christ.Musl. 18 : Ordre du pagarque du Fayoum Maymūn b. Kaʿb
P.Christ.Musl. 19-21 : Trois lettres du Maymūn b. Kaʿb
P.Christ.Musl. 19 : Début d'une lettre de Maymūn b. Kaʿb
P.Christ.Musl. 20 : Début d'une lettre Maymūn b. Kaʿb à ʿAbd . . . b. ʿAbd Allāh
P.Christ.Musl. 21 : Début d'un ordre de paiement émis par Maymūn b. Kaʿb (?)
P.Christ.Musl. 22 : Début d'une lettre de Maymūn b. Kaʿb
P.Christ.Musl. 23 : Formulaire d'une quittance au nom du pagarque Ḫālid b. Yazīd
P.Christ.Musl. 24 : Début d'une quittance émise au nom du pagarque Sarh. b. al-. . .
Rāshid b. Khālid: An Amīr in Middle Egypt under the Umayyads
Appendix: Some Entagia and Their Dates4747. This appendix partly fulfills a promise given in Gonis 2001, 225n7: "All this seems to have changed in the third decade of the eighth century, as I intend to show elsewhere." Cf. also CPR 22.9 introd., 22.11 introd.
Western Thebes and the Arab Administration of Pre-Abbasid Egypt
Naming Practices and Language Change
Remarques textuelles et méthodologiques sur les surnoms et sobriquets dans les papyrus tardifs (autour des P.Apoll.)
I. Les causes de la multiplication des surnoms à la fin de l'Antiquité
II. Lire et identifier les surnoms
III.Les noms en -ᾶς
IV. Sur des noms de monastères de l'ouest alexandrin
V. Conclusion : À quoi se réfèrent les surnoms?
Lexiques
Draft of a Late Coptic Letter.
P.Christ.Musl. 25
Bilingualism and Mono-/Bigraphia at the Nexus of Magical Traditions: From Egyptian-Greek to Coptic-Arabic Magical Texts
Approach
Terminology
Egyptian-Greek Magical Manuscripts
Demotic-Greek Magical Manuscripts
Old Coptic-Greek Magical Manuscripts
Coptic-Greek Magical Handbooks
Coptic-Arabic Bilingualism and Monographia
Coptic-Arabic Bilingual and Bigraphic Magical Manuscripts
Coptic-Arabic Bilingual and Monographic Magical Manuscripts
Arabized Christian or Muslim Clients?
Scripturae Magicae
At and as the Nexus of Magical Traditions
Contributors
Index
Papyrological Index
I (A) QUOTATIONS FROM THE PSALMS
I (B) GENERAL INDEX OF THE PSALMS
II CHRONOLOGY II (A) HIJRI YEARS
II (B) INDICTIONS
II (C) MONTHS AND DAYS
III GOVERNORS
IV PERSONAL NAMES
V GEOGRAPHICAL
VI RELIGION
VII OFFICIAL TERMS AND TITLES
VIII PROFESSIONS, TRADES AND OCCUPATIONS
IX MEASURES AND MONEY
X TAXES
XI GENERAL INDEX OF GREEK WORDS
XII GREEK WORDS IN COPTIC TEXTS
XIII COPTIC WORDS XIII (A) GENERAL INDEX
XIII (B) GRAMMATICAL INDEX
XIV ARABIC WORDS XIV (A) GENERAL INDEX
XIV (B) ARABIC NAMES IN GREEK AND COPTIC TRANSCRIPTION
XIV (C) ARABIC WORD IN COPTIC TRANSCRIPTION.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on information from the publisher.
Other Format:
Print version: Berkes, Lajos Christians and Muslims in Early Islamic Egypt
ISBN:
9780979975813
0979975816
OCLC:
1287023502

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