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DocumentsandtheHistoryoftheEarlyIslamicWorld Islamic History and Civilization studies and texts EditorialBoard HinrichBiesterfeldt SebastianGünther WadadKadi volume 111 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/ihc Documents and the History of the Early Islamic World Editedby AlexanderT.Schubert PetraM.Sijpesteijn leiden | boston Coverillustration:LeidenUniversityLibraries,Cod.Or.289,Folio35a.Imageofpapyrusplantinmanuscript fromPedaniusDioscorides(11thcentury). LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData InternationalSocietyforArabicPapyrology.Conference(3rd:2006:Alexandria,Egypt) DocumentsandthehistoryoftheearlyIslamicworld/editedbyAlexanderT.Schubert,PetraM. Sijpesteijn. pagescm.–(Islamichistoryandcivilization;v.111) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-90-04-24959-2(hardback:alk.paper)–ISBN978-90-04-28434-0(e-book) 1.Manuscripts,Arabic(Papyri)–Congresses.I.Schubert,AlexanderT.II.Sijpesteijn,Petra.III.Title. 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Contents Acknowledgements vii ListofFigures viii NotesonContributors ix NotesonEditionsandDates xii 1 Introduction 1 HughKennedy Administration&Government 2 ALateAyyubidReportofDeathFoundatQuṣayral-Qadīm 11 AnneRegourd 3 OntheIdentityofShahrālānyōzānintheGreekandMiddlePersian PapyrifromEgypt 27 JairusBanaji 4 LemonastèredeBaouîtetl’administrationarabe 43 AlainDelattre 5 FiscalEvidencefromtheNessanaPapyri 50 ShaunO’Sullivan Commerce&Travel 6 TravelinCopticDocumentaryTexts 77 AnnaSelander 7 LetransportdemarchandisesetdepersonnessurleNilen 823a.h./1420è.c. 100 FrédéricBauden vi contents Language&Culture 8 P.Cair.Arab.iii167:ADiscussionoftheAkhmīmDeclaration 133 MostafaEl-Abbadi 9 GreekandArabicinNessana 143 RachelStroumsa 10TheMasterSpoke:“TakeOneof‘theSun’andOneUnitofAlmulgam.” HithertoUnnoticedCopticPapyrologicalEvidenceforEarlyArabic Alchemy 158 TonioSebastianRichter 11TermsforVesselsinArabicandCopticDocumentaryTextsandTheir ArchaeologicalandEthnographicCorrelates 195 TashaVorderstrasse 12AQurānicAmuletonPapyrus:P.Utah.Ar.342 235 MattMalczycki NewEditions&Collections 13LespapyrusarabesdeHeidelbergdisparus.Essaidereconstructionet d’analyse 249 R.G.Khoury 14TwoNewArabicEditions:ALandSurveyfromIhnāsandḤadīths ConcerningFuneraryPractice 261 AliaHanafi 15SunshineWineontheNile 291 NicoleHansen Index 305 Acknowledgements TheoriginsofthisvolumelieinthethirdcongressoftheInternationalSoci- etyforArabicPapyrology,heldattheBibliothecaAlexandrina(ba)inMarch 2006.Wewouldliketothanktheba,andMostafaEl-AbbadiandMonaHaggag inparticular,fortheirhospitalityandgenerosityduringtheconference.Other sponsorsweretheBritishAcademy,theEgyptExplorationSociety,andPrince- tonUniversity.WewouldalsoliketothanktheSwedishInstituteandtheCentre d’ÉtudesAlexandrineswhowelcomedusforareceptionandlectureduringthe conference. The papers presented are the result of ongoing discussion and exchange since that conference, and the authors have continued to update their work andreferencesduringtheeditorialprocess.Wewouldliketothanktheseries editors,WadadKadiandSebastianGünther,fortheirhelpfulremarksonthis volume,aswellastheanonymousreadersfortheirsuggestionsregardingthe individualpapers.OllyAkkermanandWillemFlintermanalsodeservespecial thanksfortheirassistanceduringtheeditorialprocessatLeidenUniversity,and wewouldliketothanktheLeidenInstituteforAreaStudies(lias)formaking the work of these student assistants possible. As our Brill editors, Kathy van VlietandNienkeBrienen-Moolenaarhaveofferedunfalteringencouragement throughout,andforthistooweofferourthanks. Leiden,10November2014 List of Figures 2.1 a inv. pa0386 23 2.2 b/1inv. pa0381 23 2.3 b/2inv. pa0381 24 2.4 c inv. pa0388 24 4.1 P.Camb.ulinv.1262 49 7.1 ProcuratoridiSanMarco,Commissariemiste,busta180 101 10.1 BritishLibraryOrientalms.3669(1) 193 10.2 P.Bodl.MSCopt.(P)a.1 194 14.1 P.Haun.Inv.Arab.21recto 285 14.2 P.Haun.Inv.Arab.21verso 286 14.3 P.Haun.Inv.Arab.22recto 287 14.4 P.Haun.Inv.Arab.22verso 288 14.5 P.ACPSI(=P.Rag.)126recto 289 14.6 P.ACPSI(=P.Rag.)126verso. 290 Notes on Contributors MostafaEl-Abbadi isprofessoremeritusofClassicalandGreco-RomanStudiesattheUniversity ofAlexandria,Egypt,specialadvisortothedirectoroftheBibliothecaAlexan- drina, president of the Archaeological Society of Alexandria, and president oftheEgyptianAssociationforFriendsoftheBibliothecaAlexandrina.Heis theauthorofseveralbooksandarticles,includingLifeandFateoftheAncient LibraryofAlexandria(Paris,1990),whichwastranslatedintoseverallanguages. JairusBanaji isaresearchprofessorattheSchoolofOrientalandAfricanStudiesinLondon. HeistheauthorofAgrarianChangeinLateAntiquity(2nded.Oxford,2007)and ofTheoryasHistory(Leiden,2010).Heiscurrentlyputtingtogetheracollection ofhispapersforCambridgeUniversityPress. FrédéricBauden (Ph.D.1996,UniversitédeLiège)isprofessorofArabicandIslamicStudiesat the Université de Liège. He is a Fulbright scholar and was visiting associate professor at the University of Chicago (2008) and visiting professor at the UniversitàdiPisa(2009–2012).Hismainpublicationsincludearticlesdealing with historiography, diplomatics, codicology and epigraphy. He is currently preparingacriticaleditionofal-Maqrīzī’snotebookandastudyofthisauthor’s workingmethod. AlainDelattre is assistant professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He is author of Papyrus coptes et grecs du monastère d’apa Apollô de Baouît conservés aux Muséesroyauxd’Artetd’HistoiredeBruxelles(Brussels,2007). AliaHanafi isprofessorofpapyrologyintheDepartmentofAncientEuropeanCivilisation at Ain Shams University. She is the former director of the Center of Papyro- logicalStudiesandInscriptionsatAinShamsUniversityandistheauthorof numerousarticlesinthefieldsofGreekandArabicpapyrology.
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