From B W to Marw. Documents from the Medieval Muslim World

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Biographical Note: Andreas Kaplony, Ph. D. (1994), Habilitation (2001), is professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen. He has published widely on Arabic-Islamic history, including "Funfundzwanzig arabische Geschaftsdokumente vom Rotmeer-Hafen al-Qu ayr al-Qad m" (2014). Daniel Potthast, Ph. D. (2011) teaches and does research at the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen. His main interest lies in the history of Muslim-Christian contacts in the Middle Ages. He has published "Christen und Muslime im Andalus: Andalusische Christen und ihre Literatur nach religionspolemischen Texten des zehnten bis zwolften Jahrhunderts" (2013). Cornelia Romer, Ph. D. (1979), Habilitation (1994), is a long-term lecturer of the German Academic Exchange Service at Ain Shams University and a freelance collaborator of the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo. The main areas of her research are Greek literary and documentary papyrology as well as the archaeology and history of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. Her most recent book is "Commentaria et Lexica in Papyris Reperta," vol. 2,1 (2013)."Table of Contents: Contents Preface vii Contributors x Quoted Editions xiii Plates xvii 1 Three Remarkable Arabic Documents from the Heidelberg Papyrus Collection (First-Third/Seventh-Ninth Centuries) 1 Werner Diem 2 Pour une etude des archives coptes de Medinet el-Fayoum (P. Louvre inv.e 10253, e 6893, e 6867 et e 7395) 23 Florence Calament and Anne Boud hors 3 Death Dates in Umayyad Stipends Registers (D w n al- A )? The Testimony of the Papyri and the Literary Sources 59 Wad d al-Q 4 Remarques sur la taxation au monastere de Baouit au debut de l epoque arabe 83 Alain Delattre 5 Schreibubung und Schriftubungszettel zwischen Theorie und Praxis 95 Ayman A. Shahin 6 An Arabic Ephemeris for the Year 931 932ce 115 Johannes Thomann 7 Nekloni (al-Naql n) and the Coptic Account Book British Library Or.13885 153 Jacques van der Vliet 8 Two Arabic Documents from Cairo and Copenhagen 168 Alia Hanafi Index"