BILL, LETTERS AND DEEDS: Arabic Papyri of the 7th to 11th centuries AD (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, VOL VI) - Hardcover

Geoffrey Khan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0197276059 ISBN 13: 9780197276051

Publisher: The Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press, 1993

Synopsis

This volume of the Khalili Collection catalogues approximately 250 Arabic documents written on papyrus. Each accompanied by a plate, the entries are catalogued according to the type of document, firstly accounts, secondly legal documents, and thirdly, letters. Most of the documents date from the eighth or ninth centuries A.D. A large number of the papyri came from Fustat, the old Arab capital of Egypt. Nearly all published Arabic papyri came from southern Egypt. The Khalili collection contains the first Arabic document that has been discovered to have been written in northern Iraq. The documents are an important primary source for socio-economic history, palaeography, and diplomatics. The text is supported by notes, up-to-date bibliography, and index.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0197276059
• ISBN 13: 9780197276051
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 292