From al Andalus to Khurasan

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As in many areas of pre-modern history, the study of medieval Islamic history has been critically hindered by the lack of available evidence. Unlike many parallel fields, however, the shortage of c...

Papyrology And The History Of Early Islamic Egypt Islamic History and Civilization

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Wit and wisdom in classical arabic literature

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Papyrology and the History of Early Islamic Egypt

By Petra Sijpesteijn, Lennart Sundelin

From Al Andalus to Khurasan

By Petra Sijpesteijn

Authority and Control in the Countryside

By Alain Delattre, Petra Sijpesteijn, Marie Legendre

Documents and the History of the Early Islamic World

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Historians have long lamented the lack of contemporary documentary sources for the Islamic middle ages and the inhibiting effect this has had on our understanding of this critically important perio...

Why Arabic

By Petra Sijpesteijn

Mechanisms of Social Dependency in the Islamic Empire

By Edmund Hayes, Petra Sijpesteijn