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From Samarqand to Toledo : Greek, Sogdian and Arabic documents and manuscripts from the Islamicate world and beyond

Title
From Samarqand to Toledo : Greek, Sogdian and Arabic documents and manuscripts from the Islamicate world and beyond / edited by Andreas Kaplony and Matt Malczycki.
Author
International Society for Arabic Papyrology. Conference (7th : 2018 : Berlin, Germany)
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

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Additional Authors
  • Kaplony, Andreas
  • Malczycki, Matt
Description
ix, 233 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm.
Summary
"Documents open up another 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)"--
Series Statement
Islamic history and civilization, 0929-2403 ; volume 201
Uniform Title
Islamic history and civilization ; v. 201.
Subject
  • Manuscripts, Arabic (Papyri) > Congresses
  • Manuscripts, Arabic (Papyri)
Genre/Form
Conference papers and proceedings.
Note
  • "The work contained in this volume was part of Documents and Manuscripts in the Arab-Islamic World: The Seventh International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP) Conference (Berlin, 20-23 March, 2018)"--Introduction.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Who Did What in Eighth-Century Aphrodito?: P.Würzb. Inv. 122-127, Greek Tax Documents, and Some Observations on Prosopography / Janneke de Jong -- Thinking in Arabic, Writing in Sogdian: Arabic-Sogdian Diplomatic Relations in the Early Eighth Century / Said Reza Huseini -- Reconstructing Dhū l-Rumma's Poetry with the Help of Muqātil b. Sulaymān's Tafsīr (P.Cair.Arab. Inv. 1235 Verso and Recto) / Hazem Hussein Abbas Ali -- A Prisoner's Fate in Fatimid Egypt: The Late Coptic Paitos Dossier / Vincent Walter -- The Book of Twitches of Shem, Son of Noah, and Other Manuals of Palmomancy from the Cairo Genizah and al-Quṣayr / Gideon Bohak -- Scientific Textbooks and Their Application in Practice: Interdependencies of Literary and Documentary Evidence of Scientific Activities / Johannes Thomann -- 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.
ISBN
  • 9789004527867
  • 9004527869
  • 9789004527874 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2022050819
OCLC
  • on1355837802
  • 1355837802
  • SCSB-14542652
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library