Thoth distribution@thoth.pub Google 20260408T124358

urn:uuid:a9da050e-b139-4b36-88d4-374fa818a1be 03 15 9781805112327 00 EB E107 10 10 02 26326914 01 02 Semitic Languages and Cultures 01 01 Arabic Documents from Medieval Nubia 1 A01 Geoffrey Khan <p>Geoffrey Khan (PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 1984) is Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge. His research publications focus on three main fields: Biblical Hebrew language (especially medieval traditions), Neo-Aramaic dialectology, and medieval Arabic documents. He is the general editor of The Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics (Brill, 2013) and is the senior editor of Journal of Semitic Studies. His recent publications include The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew, Cambridge: University of Cambridge &amp; Open Book Publishers, 2020, Performance of Sacred Semitic Texts (editor, with co-editor Hindy Najman), Dead Sea Discoveries 29, Brill. 2022, and Language Contact in Sanandaj (co-authored with Masoud Mohammadirad), Berlin, de Gruyter, 2024.</p> 01 eng 00 854 03 12 2CSR 23 Arabic documents 23 Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures 04 DT82.5.N83 10 FOR011000 23 11th-12th centuries Nubia 12 CFF 23 History 10 LAN009010 23 Arabic sources 12 CF 10 LAN009050 12 1HFG 23 English translation 10 HIS001020 10 FOR002000 23 Middle Ages 23 Egypt-Nubia relations 01 06 03 00 <p>This volume presents an edition of a corpus of Arabic documents datable to the 11th and 12th centuries AD that were discovered by the Egypt Exploration Society at the site of the Nubian fortress Qaṣr Ibrīm (situated in the south of modern Egypt). The edition of the documents is accompanied by English translations and a detailed analysis of their contents and historical background. </p><p>The documents throw new light on relations between Egypt and Nubia in the High Middle Ages, especially in the Fatimid period. They are of particular importance since previous historical studies from the perspective of Arabic sources have been almost entirely based on historiographical sources, often written a long time after the events described and distorted by tendentious points of view.</p> 04 00 Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Arabic Documents from Qaṣr Ibrīm 3. The Correspondence with Eparchs 4. Other Correspondence and Accounts 5. Legal Documents 6. Coinage 7. Taxes 8. Lists of Commodities 9. Titles of Officials 10. Slaves and Servants 11. The Socio-Economic Situation Reflected by the Documents 12. Script and Layout 13. Language 14. Maps Documents and Translations References Indices Plates Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers 04 01 20240506 02 WORLD 06 15 9781805112303 06 15 9781805112310 06 15 9781805112327 WORLD 09 Open Book Publishers 20 01