From al-Andalus to Khurasan documents from the medieval Muslim world (Brill, 2007)
Based on papers given at the 2nd International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP) conference, held in Granada, hosted by Escuela de Estudios Árabes. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover -- Contents -- LIST OF PLATES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES ON REFERENCES, DATES AND EDITIONS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- Eduardo Manzano Moreno -- AL-ANDALUS -- ROMANCED DOCUMENTS, BILINGUAL DOCUMENTS AND BOOKS OF HABICES -- Camilo 193;lvarez de Morales -- FROM MUSLIM TO CHRISTIAN HANDS: THE DOCUMENTS FROM THE MUNICIPAL ARCHIVE OF GRANADA -- Emilio Molina L243;pez and Mar237;a del Carmen Jim233;nez Mata -- WATER AND FARM ESTATES IN THE ARABIC DOCUMENTS OF THE NA350;RID KINGDOM OF GRANADA -- Francisco Vidal Castro -- NOTARIES AND THEIR FORMULAS: THE LEGACIES FROM THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF GRANADA -- Amalia Zome241;o -- SICILY -- TRUSTING THE TEXT AS FAR AS WE CANTHROW THE SCRIBE:FURTHER NOTES ON READING A BILINGUAL JAR298;DAT AL-HUD362;D FROM THE ROYAL D298;W256;N OF NORMAN SICILY -- Alex Metcalfe -- EGYPT -- THE ECONOMICS OF STATE FORMATION IN EARLY ISLAMIC EGYPT -- Gladys Frantz-Murphy -- L8217;APPORT DE PAPYRUS POST201;RIEURS 192; LA CONQU202;TE ARABE POUR LA DATATION DES OSTRACA COPTES DE LA TOMBE TT29 -- Anne Boud8217;hors -- THE DOCUMENTARY BACKGROUND TO THE HISTORY OF THE PATRIARCHS OF PS.-SAW298;RUS IBN AL-MUQAFFA' CA. 7508211;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 -- Sof237;a Torallas Tovar -- KHURASAN -- NEWLY DISCOVERED ARABIC DOCUMENTS FROM EARLY ABBASID KHURASAN -- Geoffrey Khan -- EPIGRAPHY -- EPIGRAPHY AND THE EMERGENCE OF ARAB IDENTITY -- Robert G. Hoyland -- INDEX.
As in many areas of pre-modern history, the study of medieval Islamic history has been critically hindered by the lack of available evidence. Unlike many parallel fields, however, the shortage of contemporary documentary evidence for medieval Islam has less to do with the survival of documents and archives as with their accessibility. A rich documentary legacy survives, but, because of its inaccessibility and unfamiliarity to all but the most specialised scholars in the field, it has remained sadly underutilised. This volume contributes to the redressing of that problem. It collects papers given at the conference "Documents and the History of the Early Islamic Mediterranean World," including editions of unpublished documents and historical studies, which make use of documentary evidence from al-Andalus, Sicily, Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, Syria and Khurasan