Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean world : from Constantinople to Baghdad, 500-1000 CE / edited by Jelle Bruning, Janneke H.M. de Jong, Petra M. Sijpesteijn.

Contributor Bruning, Jelle, editor.

ImprintCambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Imprint2022

Descriptionxv, 508 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm

Note:Introduction / Jelle Bruning, Janneke H. M. de Jong and Petra M. Sijpesteijn -- Part 1. Political and Administrative Connections -- Egypt in the age of Justinian: connector or disconnector? / Peter Sarris -- At the crossroads of regional settings: Egypt, 500-1000 CE / Yaacov Lev -- The frontier zone at the first cataract before and at the time of the Muslim conquest (fifth to seventh centuries) / Stefanie Schmidt -- Islamic historiography on early Muslim relations with Nubia / Sylvie Denoix -- Local tradition and imperial legal policy under the Umayyads: the evolution of the early Egyptian school of law / Mathieu Tillier -- Ibn Tulun's pacification campaign: sedition, authority and empire in Abbasid Egypt / Matthew S. Gordon -- Part 2. Economic Connections -- Between Ramla and Fustat: Archaeological evidence for Egyptian contacts with early Islamic Palestine (eighth-eleventh centuries) / Gideon Avni -- Egypt's connections in the early Caliphate: political, economic and cultural / Petra M. Sijpesteijn -- Trading activities in the Eastern Mediterranean through ceramics between late antiquity and fatimid times (ca. seventh-tenth/eleventh centuries) / Joanita Vroom -- Part 3. Social and Cultural Connections -- The destruction of Alexandria: religious imagery and local identity in early Islamic Egypt / Jelle Bruning -- Scribal networks, taxation and the role of coptic in Marwanid Egypt / Jennifer Cromwell -- A changing position of Greek? Greek papyri in the documentary culture of early Islamic Egypt / Janneke H. M. de Jong -- Regional diversity in the use of administrative loanwords in early Islamic Arabic documentary sources (632-800 CE): a preliminary survey / Eugenio Garosi -- Babylon/Qasr al-Sham': continuity and change at the heart of the new metropolis of Fustat / Peter Sheehan and Alison L. Gascoigne -- Utilizing non-Muslim literary sources for the study of Egypt, 500-1000 CE / Maged S.A. Mikhail.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:Maps Egypt's political, economic and cultural connections throughout the Mediterranean and beyond between 500 and 1000 CE.

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