| ISBN |
9004155678 (hbk.) |
| 9789004155671 (hbk.) |
| Meeting Name |
International Society for Arabic Papyrology (2nd : 2004 : Granada, Spain) |
| Title |
From al-Andalus to Khurasan : documents from the medieval Muslim world / edited by Petra M. Sijpesteijn ... [et al.] |
| Publisher |
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007 |
| Physical desc. |
xxviii, 252 p. ; ill. (b&w) ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Islamic history and civilization Studies and texts 66 |
| Note |
Based on papers given at the 2nd International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP) conference, Documents and the history of the early Islamic Mediterranean world, held 23-27 March 2004, and hosted by Escuela de Estudios Árabes, Granada, Spain. |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Contents |
Al-Andalus: 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, María del Carmen Jiménez Mata. -- Water and farm estates in the Arabic documents of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada / Francisco Vidal Castro. -- The notaries and their formulas: the legacies from the library of the University of Granada / Amalia Zomeño. -- Sicily: Trusting the text as far as we can throw the scribe: further notes on reading a bilingual Jarīdat al-Hudūd from the Royal Dīwān of Norman Sicily / Alex Metcalfe. -- Egypt: 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-Muqaffaʻ 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. -- Khurasan: Newly discovered Arabic documents from early Abbasid Khurasan / Geoffrey Khan. -- Epigraphy: Epigraphy and the emergence of Arab identity / Robert G. Hoyland. |
| Language Note |
12 papers in English; 1 in French; includes texts and some translations of Arabic and Coptic manuscripts. |
| Subject |
Civilization, Islamic -- Sources |
| Manuscripts, Arabic -- Congresses |
| Manuscripts, Arabic (Papyri) -- Congresses |
| Civilization, Islamic -- Congresses |
| Mediterranean Region -- Civilization -- Congresses |
| Andalusia (Spain) -- Civilization -- Islamic influences |
| Added name(s) |
Sijpesteijn, Petra ed. |
| Sundelin, Lennart ed. |
| Torallas Tovar, Sofía ed. |
| Zomeño, Amalia ed. |
| Added name(s) - Corporate |
International Society for Arabic Papyrology |
| Escuela de Estudios Arabes de Granada |
