Shaping a Muslim state : the world of a mid-eighth-century Egyptian official /

This book provides a synthetic study of the political, social, and economic processes which formed early Islamic Egypt. Looking at a corpus of previously unknown Arabic papyrus letters, dating from between ad 730 and 750, which were written to a Muslim administrator and merchant in the Fayyum oasis...

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Main Author:	Sijpesteijn, Petra
Format:	eBook
Language:	English Arabic
Language Notes:	In English; text of papyri in Arabic with English translation.
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Series:	Oxford studies in Byzantium.
Subjects:	ʻAbd Allāh ibn Asʻad, > active 8th century > Correspondence. Nājid ibn Muslim, > active 8th century > Correspondence. Paleography, Arabic. Manuscripts, Arabic (Papyri) Egypt > History > 640-1250 > Sources. Papyrus arabes. Égypte > Histoire > 640-1250 > Sources. Paleography, Arabic Egypt Education. Social Sciences. Book Studies & Arts. 640-1250 Electronic books. History Personal correspondence Sources
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by Sijpesteijn, Petra
Published 2013

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