From Bāwīṭ To Marw. Documents from the Medieval Muslim World

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-28205-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 112, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization

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 This volume collects papers given at the Vienna conference, including editions of previously unpublished Coptic and Arabic documents, as well as historical and linguistic studies based on documentary evidence from Early Islamic Egypt.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; Wadad al-Qadi; Ayman A. Shahin; Johannes Thomann and Jacques van der Vliet.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaplony, Andreas

Potthast, Daniel

Römer, Cornelia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 7. - 14. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altorientalische Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Papyrologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Koran, Heilige Texte & Traditionsliteratur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface vii

Contributors x

Quoted Editions xiii

Plates xvii

1 Three Remarkable Arabic Documents from the Heidelberg Papyrus Collection (First-Third/Seventh-Ninth Centuries) 1
Werner Diem
2 Pour une étude des archives coptes de Medinet el-Fayoum (P.Louvre inv.e 10253, e 6893, e 6867 et e 7395) 23
Florence Calament and Anne Boud’hors
3 Death Dates in Umayyad Stipends Registers (Diwan al-'Ata')? The Testimony of the Papyri and the Literary Sources 59
Wadad al-Qadi
4 Remarques sur la taxation au monastère de Baouît au début de l’époque arabe 83
Alain Delattre
5 Schreibübung und Schriftübungszettel zwischen Theorie und Praxis 95
Ayman A. Shahin
6 An Arabic Ephemeris for the Year 931–932ce 115
Johannes Thomann
7 Nekloni (al-Naqlun) and the Coptic Account Book British Library Or.13885 153
Jacques van der Vliet
8 Two Arabic Documents from Cairo and Copenhagen 168
Alia Hanafi

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andreas Kaplony, Ph.D. (1994), Habilitation (2001), is professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He has published widely on Arabic-Islamic history, including Fünfundzwanzig arabische Geschäftsdokumente vom Rotmeer-Hafen al-Qusayr al-Qadim (2014).

Daniel Potthast, Ph.D. (2011) teaches and does research at the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. His main interest lies in the history of Muslim-Christian contacts in the Middle Ages. He has published Christen und Muslime im Andalus: Andalusische Christen und ihre Literatur nach religionspolemischen Texten des zehnten bis zwölften Jahrhunderts (2013).

Cornelia Römer, Ph.D. (1979), Habilitation (1994), is a long-term lecturer of the German Academic Exchange Service at Ain Shams University and a freelance collaborator of the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo. The main areas of her research are Greek literary and documentary papyrology as well as the archaeology and history of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. Her most recent book is Commentaria et Lexica in Papyris Reperta, vol. 2,1 (2013).