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

280 Pages·2006·2.26 MB·English

by  Sijpesteijn

FROM AL-ANDALUS TO KHURASAN
ISLAMIC HISTORY
AND CIVILIZATION
STUDIES AND TEXTS
edited by
WADAD KADI
AND
ROTRAUD WIELANDT
VOLUME 66
FROM AL-ANDALUS TO
KHURASAN
Documents from the Medieval Muslim World
EDITED BY
PETRA M. SIJPESTEIJN
LENNART SUNDELIN
SOFÍA TORALLAS TOVAR
AMALIA ZOMEÑO
LEIDEN•BOSTON
2007
On the cover: “Legacy. Document 32975. Caja C-027 (26) reproduced with the permission
from the Biblioteca del Hospital Real (Universidad de Granada)” (Plate 2, p. 75).
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
From al-Andalus to Khurasan : documents from the medieval Muslim world / edited
by Petra M. Sijpesteijn ... [et al.].
p. cm. — (Islamic history and civilization ; v. 66)
Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN-13: 978-90-04-15567-1 (alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 90-04-15567-8 (alk. paper)
1. Civilization, Islamic—Sources. I. Sijpesteijn, Petra. II. Title.
III. Series.
DS36.855.F76 2006
956’.014—dc22
2006043095
ISSN 0929-2403
ISBN-13:978-90-04-15567-1
ISBN-10:90-04-15567-8
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CONTENTS
List of Plates ................................................................................ vii
Acknowledgements ..................................................................... ix
Notes on References, Dates and Editions ................................... xi
Notes on Contributors ................................................................ xiii
Introduction ................................................................................ xvii
Eduardo Manzano (CSIC, Madrid)
AL-ANDALUS
Romanced Documents, Bilingual Documents and Books of
Habices ..................................................................................... 3
Camilo Álvarez de Morales (Escuela de Estudios
Árabes, Granada)
From Muslim to Christian Hands: The Documents from the
Municipal Archive of Granada ............................................... 23
Emilio Molina López – María del Carmen Jiménez Mata
(University of Granada)
Water and Farm Estates in the Arabic Documents of the
Na(cid:201)rid Kingdom of Granada ................................................. 39
Francisco Vidal Castro (University of Jaén)
The Notaries and Their Formulas: The legacies from the
Library of the University of Granada .................................... 59
Amalia Zomeño (Escuela de Estudios Árabes, Granada)
SICILY
Trusting the Text as Far as We Can Throw the Scribe:
Further Notes on Reading a Bilingual Jar(cid:210)dat al-Hud(cid:214)d
from the Royal D(cid:210)w(cid:202)n of Norman Sicily ................................. 81
Alex Metcalfe (Lancaster University)
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EGYPT
The Economics of State Formation in Early Islamic Egypt ....... 101
Gladys Frantz-Murphy (Regis University, Denver)
L’apport de papyrus postérieurs à la conquête arabe pour
la datation des ostraca coptes de la tombe TT29 ................... 115
Anne Boud’hors (CNRS, Paris)
The Documentary Background to the HistoryofthePatriarchs
of ps.-Saw(cid:210)rus ibn al-Muqaffa(cid:123)ca. 750–969 C.E. .................... 131
Frank R. Trombley (Cardiff University)
An Early Arabic Business Letter ................................................. 153
Alia Hanafi (‘Ain Shams University, Cairo)
The Archival Mind in Early Islamic Egypt:
Two Arabic Papyri .................................................................. 163
Petra M. Sijpesteijn (University of Oxford)
A Tenth century List of Payments or Poll Tax Collecting
on Paper from the Montserrat Collection ............................... 187
Sofía Torallas Tovar (CSIC, Madrid)
KHURASAN
Newly Discovered Arabic Documents from Early
Abbasid Khurasan .................................................................. 201
Geoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge)
EPIGRAPHY
Epigraphy and the Emergence of Arab Identity ........................ 219
Robert G. Hoyland (University of St. Andrews)
Index ........................................................................................... 243
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LIST OF PLATES
Plate 1 Caja C 27 (16) R. 32965 (Vidal) ................................... 58
Plate 2 BUG R. 32975 Caja C 27 (26) (Zomeño 1) ................. 75
Plate 3 BUG R. 32976. Caja C 27 (27) (Zomeño 2) ................ 76
Plate 4 BUG R. 32993 Caja C 27 (44) (Zomeño 3) ................. 77
Plate 5 Papyrus n° 291972r + 291973 (Boud’hors 1) ............... 127
Plate 6 Papyrus n° 291972v (Boud’hors 2) ............................... 128
Plate 7 Papyrus n° 291973 seal (Boud’hors 3) .......................... 129
Plate 8 P. ACPSI. no. 113 (P. Rag.) (Hanafi) ............................. 161
Plate 9 P.Vindob. AP 5.379 (Sijpesteijn 1) ................................ 185
Plate 10 Princeton AM 13456 (Sijpesteijn 2) ............................. 186
Plate 11 P.Monts.Roca inv. 524 (Torallas Tovar 1) ..................... 196
Plate 12 P.Monts.Roca inv. 524 (Torallas Tovar 2) ..................... 197
Plate 13 Nemara Inscription, 328 A.D. (Hoyland 1) .................. 221
Plate 14 Umm al-Jimmal, Jordan (Hoyland 2) ........................... 223
Plate 15 Hegra Inscription, Northwest Arabia, July 267 A.D.
(Hoyland 3) .................................................................. 224
Plate 16 Zebed Graffito, Northern Syria, 512 A.D. or later
(Hoyland 4) .................................................................. 231
Plate 17 Saola Inscription, Mt. Nebo, Mid-6th Century A.D.
(Hoyland 5) .................................................................. 235
Plate 18 Mecca poetry graffito (Hoyland 6) ............................... 238
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1 P.Berl.Arab. I 8 (Khan) ................................................ 207
Figure 2 Jabal Usays Graffito, Southeast Syria, 528 A.D.
(Hoyland) ..................................................................... 233
Figure 3 (cid:198)arran Inscription, Southern Syria, 528 A.D.
(Hoyland) ..................................................................... 234
Figure 4 En Avdat Inscription Negev Desert, approx.
2–3 Century A.D. (Hoyland) ........................................ 237
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The articles in this volume are based on papers given at the second
Inter national Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP) conference in
Granada. The second ISAP conference was born of the happy inter-
section of ISAP’s aims with those of the Granadan Arabic document
project. “Documentary Evidence and the History of the Early Islamic
Mediterranean” (23–27 March 2004) sought to promote familiarity
with the rich collections of Arabic documents preserved in the Ibe-
rian Peninsula and to highlight the mixed, dynamically cross-cultural
nature of the societies that produced them. We would like to thank all
those who participated in the conference and made it the success it was.
The conference was hosted by the Escuela de Estudios Árabes,
Spain’s superb research centre of Arabic studies and Andalusi history,
with funding from the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, the Con-
sejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), as well as the Asso-
ciation International de Papyrologues and the Near Eastern Studies
Department of Princeton University. We thank these institutions all for
their exceptional generosity and support.
We would also like to thank Alain Martin of the Centre de papy-
rologie et d’épigraphie grecque (University of Brussels) for his patience
and support, and Ángel Ocón Pérez de Óbanos and the staff from the
University Library of Granada for showing us the Arabic Granadan
documents preserved in the Hospital Real.
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