Arabic Documents from Medieval Nubia - cover image

Copyright

Geoffrey Khan

ISBN

Paperback978-1-80511-230-3
Hardback978-1-80511-231-0
PDF978-1-80511-232-7

Language

  • English

Print Length

854 pages (xiv+840)

Dimensions

Paperback156 x 44 x 234 mm(6.14" x 1.73" x 9.21")
Hardback156 x 234 mm (6.14" x 9.21")

Weight

Paperback1178g (41.55oz)

THEMA

  • CJ
  • CFF
  • CFB
  • NHH

BIC

  • 2CSR
  • CFF
  • CF
  • 1HFG

BISAC

  • FOR011000
  • LAN009010
  • LAN009050
  • HIS001020
  • FOR002000

Keywords

  • Arabic documents
  • 11th-12th centuries Nubia
  • Arabic sources
  • English translation
  • Middle Ages
  • Egypt-Nubia relations

    Arabic Documents from Medieval Nubia

    FORTHCOMING
    This volume presents an edition of a corpus of Arabic documents datable to the 11th and 12th centuries AD that were discovered by the Egypt Exploration Society at the site of the Nubian fortress Qaṣr Ibrīm (situated in the south of modern Egypt). The edition of the documents is accompanied by English translations and a detailed analysis of their contents and historical background.
    The documents throw new light on relations between Egypt and Nubia in the High Middle Ages, especially in the Fatimid period. They are of particular importance since previous historical studies from the perspective of Arabic sources have been al-most entirely based on historiographical sources, often written a long time after the events described and distorted by tendentious points of view.

    Table of Contents

    Preface

    1. Introduction

    2. The Arabic Documents from Qaṣr Ibrīm

    3. The Correspondence with Eparchs

    4. Other Correspondence and Accounts

    5. Legal Documents

    6. Coinage

    7. Taxes

    8. Lists of Commodities

    9. Titles of Officials

    10. Slaves and Servants

    11. The Socio-Economic Situation Reflected by the Documents

    12. Script and Layout

    13. Language

    14. Maps

    Documents and Translations

    References

    Indices

    Plates


    Contributors

    Geoffrey Khan

    (author)
    Regius Professor of Hebrew at University of Cambridge
    https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2550-9896

    Geoffrey Khan (PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 1984) is Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge. His research publications focus on three main fields: Biblical Hebrew language (especially medieval traditions), Neo-Aramaic dialectology, and medieval Arabic documents. He is the general editor of The Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics (Brill, 2013) and is the senior editor of Journal of Semitic Studies. His recent publications include The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew, Cambridge: University of Cambridge & Open Book Publishers, 2020, Performance of Sacred Semitic Texts (editor, with co-editor Hindy Najman), Dead Sea Discoveries 29, Brill. 2022, and Language Contact in Sanandaj (co-authored with Masoud Mohammadirad), Berlin, de Gruyter, 2024.