From al-Andalus to Khurasan (Islamic History and Civilization)

LIST OF PLATES......Page 7
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 9
NOTES ON REFERENCES, DATES AND EDITIONS......Page 11
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS......Page 13
INTRODUCTION --- Eduardo Manzano Moreno......Page 17
AL-ANDALUS......Page 29
ROMANCED DOCUMENTS, BILINGUAL DOCUMENTS AND BOOKS OF HABICES --- Camilo Álvarez de Morales......Page 31
FROM MUSLIM TO CHRISTIAN HANDS: THE DOCUMENTS FROM THE MUNICIPAL ARCHIVE OF GRANADA --- Emilio Molina López and María del Carmen Jiménez Mata......Page 51
WATER AND FARM ESTATES IN THE ARABIC DOCUMENTS OF THE NAŞRID KINGDOM OF GRANADA --- Francisco Vidal Castro......Page 67
NOTARIES AND THEIR FORMULAS: THE LEGACIES FROM THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF GRANADA --- Amalia Zomeño......Page 87
SICILY......Page 107
TRUSTING THE TEXT AS FAR AS WE CANTHROW THE SCRIBE:FURTHER NOTES ON READING A BILINGUAL JARĪDAT AL-HUDŪD FROM THE ROYAL DĪWĀN OF NORMAN SICILY --- Alex Metcalfe......Page 109
EGYPT......Page 127
THE ECONOMICS OF STATE FORMATION IN EARLY ISLAMIC EGYPT --- Gladys Frantz-Murphy......Page 129
L’APPORT DE PAPYRUS POSTÉRIEURS À LA CONQUÊTE ARABE POUR LA DATATION DES OSTRACA COPTES DE LA TOMBE TT29 --- Anne Boud’hors......Page 143
THE DOCUMENTARY BACKGROUND TO THE HISTORY OF THE PATRIARCHS OF PS.-SAWĪRUS IBN AL-MUQAFFA' CA. 750–969 C.E. --- Frank R. Trombley......Page 159
AN EARLY ARABIC BUSINESS LETTER --- Alia Hanafi......Page 181
THE ARCHIVAL MIND IN EARLY ISLAMIC EGYPT: TWO ARABIC PAPYRI --- Petra M. Sijpesteijn......Page 191
A TENTH-CENTURY LIST OF PAYMENTS OR POLL TAX COLLECTING ON PAPER FROM THE MONTSERRAT COLLECTION --- Sofía Torallas Tovar......Page 215
KHURASAN......Page 227
NEWLY DISCOVERED ARABIC DOCUMENTS FROM EARLY ABBASID KHURASAN --- Geoffrey Khan......Page 229
EPIGRAPHY......Page 245
EPIGRAPHY AND THE EMERGENCE OF ARAB IDENTITY --- Robert G. Hoyland......Page 247
INDEX......Page 271