Documents and the history of the early Islamic world / edited by Alexander T. Schubert, Petra M. Sijpesteijn.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Notes on Editions and Dates -- Introduction / Hugh Kennedy -- Administration and Government -- A Late Ayyubid Report of Death Found at Quṣayr al-Qadīm / Anne Regourd -- On the Identity of Shahrālānyōzān in the Greek and Middle Persian Papyri from Egypt / Jairus Banaji -- Le monastère de Baouît et l’ administration arabe / Alain Delattre -- Fiscal Evidence from the Nessana Papyri / Shaun O’Sullivan -- Commerce and Travel -- Travel in Coptic Documentary Texts / Anna Selander -- Le transport de marchandises et de personnes sur le Nil en 823 A.H./1420 È.C. / Frédéric Bauden -- Language and Culture -- P.Cair.Arab III 167: A Discussion of the Akhmīm Declaration / Mostafa El-Abbadi -- Greek and Arabic in Nessana / Rachel Stroumsa -- The Master Spoke: “Take One of ‘the Sun’ and One Unit of Almulgam.” Hitherto Unnoticed Coptic Papyrological Evidence for Early Arabic Alchemy / Tonio Sebastian Richter -- Terms for Vessels in Arabic and Coptic Documentary Texts and Their Archaeological and Ethnographic Correlates / Tasha Vorderstrasse -- A Qurānic Amulet on Papyrus: P.Utah.Ar. 342 / W. Matt Malczycki -- New Editions and Collections -- Les papyrus arabes de Heidelberg disparus. Essai de reconstruction et d’ analyse / R.G. Khoury -- Two New Arabic Editions: A Land Survey from Ihnās and Ḥadīths Concerning Funerary Practice / Alia Hanafi -- Sunshine Wine on the Nile / Nicole Hansen -- Back Matter -- Index.

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Historians have long lamented the lack of contemporary documentary sources for the Islamic middle ages and the inhibiting effect this has had on our understanding of this critically important period. Although the field is richly served by surviving evidence, much of it is hard to locate, difficult to access, and philologically intractable. Presenting a mixture of historical studies and new editions of Greek, Arabic and Coptic material from the seventh to the fifteenth century C.E. from Egypt and Palestine, Documents and the History of the Early Islamic World explores the untapped wealth of documentary sources available in collections around the world and shows how this exciting material can be used for historical analysis. Contributors include: Hugh Kennedy, Anne Regourd, Jairus Banaji, Alain Delattre, Shaun O’Sullivan, Anna Selander, Frédéric Bauden, Mostafa El-Abbadi, Rachel Stroumsa, Sebastian Richter, Tascha Vorderstrasse, Matt Malczycki, R.G. Khoury, Nicole Hansen, and Alia Hanafi. For more titles about Papyrology, please click here .

In English, with three contributions in French.