Sijpesteijn Medieval Strategies of Entreaty from North Africa to Eurasia

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-80270-199-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 220 Seiten

Reihe: The medieval globe

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sijpesteijn, Petra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations "Introduction," by Birte Kristiansen and Petra M. Sijpesteijn “'The Caliph Calls You to the Book of God': Writing to Rebels in the Early Islamic Period," by Hannah-Lena Hagemann "'Maintaining Friendship and Commercial Relations in Eighth-Century Egypt': Three Letters from Abu Yusuf to Abu Yazid," by Petra M. Sijpesteijn "Between Practical Petitioning and Divine Intervention: Entreaties to the Shi'i Imams in the Ninth Century CE," by Edmund Hayes "Forging Historical and Diplomatic Ties in the Islamic West: The Letter of a Berber Emir to the Umayyad Caliph, 317 AH (929 CE)," by Aurélien Montel "Asking for a Friend: Travel Requests and Social Relations in Umayyad Egypt," by Cecilia Palombo and Eline Scheerlink "Gender and the Art of Asking: Letters of Request to Distinguished Women Preserved in the Cairo Geniza," by Oded Zinger "Hidden Private Entreaties behind Two Public Steles from the Mid-Tang Dynasty," by Jialong Liu "Ghostwriting and Patronage-Seeking Letters in Song Dynasty China, 960–1279," by Beverly Bossler "Beyond Epistolary Standards? The Language of Entreaty in Political and Diplomatic Communications from Thirteenth-Century Iberia," by Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo "Supplication, Authority, Militancy: Request Strategies in Late Medieval Princely Women’s Letters from Burgundy," by Margreet Brandsma

Über Autor(innen)

Sijpesteijn Petra:
Petra M. Sijpesteijn (PhD Princeton) is Professor of Arabic at Leiden University and the founding president of the International Society for Arabic Papyrology. Her research focuses on the experiences of those living under Islamicate rule, including Jews and Christians.