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Auteur(s) : Sijpesteijn, Petra Marieke (1971-....)
Titre(s) : Shaping a Muslim state [Texte imprimé] : the world of a mid-eighth-century Egyptian official / Petra M. Sijpesteijn
Publication : New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2013
Description matérielle : xxvii, 524 pages, 40 unnumbered plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Collection : Oxford studies in Byzantium
Lien à la collection : Oxford studies in byzantium
Comprend : Machine generated contents note: pt. I DISCUSSION ; 1.The Egyptian Context: Geography
and History ; 1.1.One land ; 1.2.The Nile ; 1.3.Irrigation and water distribution
; 1.4.Flora and fauna ; 1.5.The Fayyum ; 1.6.The pre-Islamic political and administrative
structure ; 1.6.1.Political and administrative developments ; 1.6.2.The economy
; 1.6.3.Arabia and Egypt ; 2.Arab Egypt: The First Fifty Years ; 2.1.The Arab conquest
of Egypt ; 2.2.Continuous vigilance ; 2.3.Controlling Egypt's might ; 2.4.Post-conquest
Muslim rule and government ; 2.5.Arab settlement in the Egyptian countryside ; 2.6.The
administrative structure ; 2.7.The fifty-year about-turn ; 2.8.Conclusion ; 3.The
Second Fifty Years: Consolidation and Reform ; 3.1.The administrative context ;
3.2.Dramatis personae ; 3.2.1.The Amir ; 3.2.2.Najid b. Muslim ; 3.2.3.`Abd Allah
b. As'ad ; 3.2.4.Jarid b. As'ad ; 3.2.5.Local power: village headmen, estate-holders,
and other local powerbrokers ;
Contents note continued: 3.2.6.Muslim taxpayers ; 3.3.Taxes and taxation ; 3.3.1.The
system ; 3.3.2.Sadaqa and zakat ; 3.4.Conclusion: a changing model or changing the
model? ; 4.Beyond Words ; 4.1.The power of writing ; 4.2.Technical aspects of the
letters ; 4.3.Layout, orthography, and epistolary formulae ; 4.4.A community of
literati? ; 4.5.The added value of the written word ; 4.6.Public writing: government
communication and state consolidation ; 4.7.Conclusion ; 5.Conclusion ; pt. II
THE TEXTS ; Note on the Orthography and Grammar of the Papyri ; 1.Concerning a letter
from the amir ; 2.Request for taxes from `Abd Allah's district ; 3.Request for deliveries
in kind ; 4.Collecting taxes in kind ; 5.Order from the amir concerning the delivery
of grapes ; 6.Concerning a forwarded letter ; 7.Returning a fugitive and mules
; 8.Instructions to collect sadaqa and zakat ; 9.Announcing a delivery ; 10.Letter
related to administrative matters ;
Contents note continued: 11.Fragment of a letter from Najid b. Muslim ; 12.Concerning
some urgent business ; 13.Standing guarantor ; 14.Deliveries of oil from some villages
; 15.Organization of the delivery of oil ; 16.Concerning an irrigation canal ; 17.Assigning
water to Narmuda ; 18.Letter requesting several deliveries ; 19.Request to deliver
some produce ; 20.Request to buy fifteen dinars worth of wheat ; 21.Concerning an
injustice and the payment of taxes ; 22.About the collection of jizya ; 23.Organizing
the tax collection ; 24.Concerning a loan ; 25.Request for a deposit ; 26.Concerning
the repayment of a debt ; 27.An order for veils ; 28.Purchase of radish oil ; 29.Purchase
of different commodities ; 30.Letter related to tax collection ; 31.Petition for
a fugitive ; 32.Sheep trade with Alexandria ; 33.Beginning of a letter to 'Abd Allah
b. As'ad ; 34.Letter from 'Abd Allah b. As'ad ; 35.Restoring tax-collecting rights
;
Contents note continued: 36.Reporting on the completion of a tax collection ; 37.Letter
from Najid b. Muslim to Sahl b. Habib ; 38.Letter to one of Najid's scribes ; 39.Letter
from one of Najid's scribes.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-503) and indexes
In English; text of papyri in Arabic with English translation.
Sujet(s) : Papyrus égyptiens
Islam -- Égypte -- 8e siècle
Commerce -- Égypte -- 8e siècle -- Sources
Égypte -- 640-1250
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199673902 (hardback). - ISBN 019967390X (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43908442d
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