From Samarqand to Toledo

Greek, Sogdian and Arabic Documents and Manuscripts from the Islamicate World and Beyond
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-52786-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 201, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 534 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization

Documents open up another an approach complementary to the overwhelming richness of literary tradition as preserved in manuscripts. This volume combines studies on Greek, Sogdian and Arabic documents (letters, legal agreements, and amulets) with studies on Arabic and Judeo-Arabic manuscripts (poetry, science and divination).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kaplony, Andreas

Malczycki, Matt

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Andreas Kaplony and Matt Malczycki

1 Who Did What in Eighth-Century Aphrodito? P.Würzb. Inv. 122–127, Greek Tax Documents, and Some Observations on Prosopography

Janneke de Jong

2 Thinking in Arabic, Writing in Sogdian: Arabic-Sogdian Diplomatic Relations in the Early Eighth Century

Said Reza Huseini

3 Reconstructing Dhu l-Rumma’s Poetry with the Help of Muqatil b. Sulayman’s Tafsir (P.Cair.Arab. Inv. 1235 Verso and Recto)

Hazem Hussein Abbas Ali

4 A Prisoner’s Fate in Fatimid Egypt: The Late Coptic Paitos Dossier

Vincent Walter

5 The Book of Twitches of Shem, Son of Noah, and Other Manuals of Palmomancy from the Cairo Genizah and al-Qu?ayr

Gideon Bohak

6 Scientific Textbooks and Their Application in Practice: Interdependencies of Literary and Documentary Evidence of Scientific Activities

Johannes Thomann

7 Writing in Arabic after the Christian Conquest of Toledo: Christian and Islamic Documents and the Concept of Sunna (Appendix: Two Documents on the Sale of a Mosque)

Rocio Daga Portillo

Documents Quoted

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andreas Kaplony, PhD (1994), Habilitation (2001), is Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and co-director of the Arabic Papyrology Database (www.naher-osten.lmu.de/apd). He has published widely on Arabic-Islamic history, most recently From Barcelona to Qom: Aramaic, South Arabian, Coptic, Arabic and Judeo-Arabic Documents, ed. Andreas Kaplony and Daniel Potthast (2021).

Matt Malczycki, PhD (2006) is the Joseph A. Kicklighter Associate Professor of History at Auburn University. He previously co-edited New Frontiers of Arabic Papyrology with Sobhi Bouderbala and Sylvie Denoix (2017).