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Author International Society for Arabic Papyrology. Conference (5th : 2012 : Qarṭājannah, Tunisia), author.

Title New frontiers of Arabic papyrology : Arabic and multilingual texts from early Islam / edited by Sobhi Bouderbala, Sylvie Denoix, Matt Malczycki
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 200 pages)
Series Islamic history and civilization ; volume 144
Islamic history and civilization ; v. 144.
Contents Multicultural texts. Arabia, Arabs, and, "Arabic" in Greek documents from Egypt / Janneke de Jong -- Writing exercises from early Islamic Bawit (with an appendix) / Lajos Berkes -- Changing money and shifting languages in Fatimid Egypt: a late-Coptic account book from the papers of Noël (Aimé- )Giron / Sebastian Richter -- Arabic thoughts, Greek numbers, Coptic script: two accounting documents from Fatimid Fayyum / Marie Legendre -- Reading different kinds of texts. Arabic letters of condolence on papyrus / Khaled Younes -- A comparison of P. Utah. Ar. inv. 205 to the canonical hadith collections: the written raw material of early hadith study / Matt Malczycki -- Etude épigraphique des graffiti de la Grande Mosquée de Kairouan / Lotfi Abdeljaouad -- The language and transmission of texts. From qusṭal to jahbadh: an aspect of transition on the Egyptian tax-collecting system / Manabu Kameya -- A Sufi scroll, a nasab, a ta'rikh? a medieval text still alive today? / Ursula Bsees -- A fragment of an unusual Arabic almanac for 297 AH/910 CE (P. Berl. inv. 12793) / Johannes Thomann
Summary New Frontiers of Arabic Papyrology contains research presented at the 5th congress of the International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP) held in Tunis in 2012. Like previous ISAP volumes, this one focuses on the transformative era of the Islamic conquests, although some of the articles treat later periods. The volume contains articles relevant to Arabic, Coptic, and Greek papyrology. There is also work on folk religion, astronomy, and epigraphy. Contributors: Lotfi Abdeljaouad, Lajos Berkes, Ursula Bsees, Janneke de Jong, Manabu Kameya, Marie Legendre, Matt Malczycki, Tonio Sebastian Richter, Johannes Thomann, Khaled Younes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English; one contribution in French
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 13, 2017)
Subject Manuscripts, Arabic (Papyri) -- Congresses
LITERARY CRITICISM -- African.
Manuscripts, Arabic (Papyri)
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Bouderbala, Sobhi, editor.
Denoix, Sylvie, editor.
Malczycki, Matt, editor.
LC no. 2017020681
ISBN 9789004345171
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