From Bawit to Marw : : documents from the medieval Muslim world / / edited by Andreas Kaplony, Daniel Potthast, Cornelia Römer ; contributors, Anne Boud'hors [and eleven others].

• Superior document: Islamic History and Civilization : Studies and Texts, Volume 112
• Author: International Society for Arabic Papyrology. Conference
• TeilnehmendeR: Kaplony, Andreas,; Potthast, Daniel,; Römer, Cornelia,; Bouvarel-Boud'hors, Anne,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic history and civilization ; Volume 112.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The dry climate of Egypt has preserved about 130,000 Arabic documents, mostly on papyrus and paper, covering the period from the 640s to 1517. Up to now, historical research has mostly relied on literary sources; yet, as in study of the history of the Ancient World and medieval Europe, using original documents will radically challenge what literary sources tell us about the Islamic world. The renaissance of Arabic papyrology has become obvious by the founding of the International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP) at the Cairo conference (2002), and by its subsequent conferences in Granada (2004), Alexandria (2006), Vienna (2009), and Tunis (2012). This volume collects papers given at the Vienna conference, including editions of previously unpublished Coptic and Arabic documents, as well as historical and linguistic studies based on documentary evidence from Early Islamic Egypt. With contributions by: Anne Boud’hors; Florence Calament; Alain Delattre; Werner Diem; Alia Hanafi; Wadād al-Qāḍī; Ayman A. Shahin; Johannes Thomann and Jacques van der Vliet. For more titles about Papyrology, please click here .

Table of Contents

Front Matter / Andreas Kaplony , Daniel Potthast and Cornelia Römer -- Three Remarkable Arabic Documents from the Heidelberg Papyrus Collection (First-Third/Seventh-Ninth Centuries) / Werner Diem -- Pour une étude des archives coptes de Medinet el-Fayoum / Florence Calament and Anne Boud’hors -- Death Dates in Umayyad Stipends Registers (Dīwān al-ʿAṭāʾ)? The Testimony of the Papyri and the Literary Sources / Wadād al-Qāḍī -- Remarques sur la taxation au monastère de Baouît au début de l’époque arabe / Alain Delattre -- Schreibübung und Schriftübungszettel zwischen Theorie und Praxis / Ayman A. Shahin -- An Arabic Ephemeris for the Year 931–932CE / Johannes Thomann -- Nekloni (al-Naqlūn) and the Coptic Account Book British Library Or. 13885 / Jacques van der Vliet -- Two Arabic Documents from Cairo and Copenhagen / Alia Hanafi -- General Index / Andreas Kaplony , Daniel Potthast and Cornelia Römer.