Shaping a Muslim state the world of a mid-eighth-century Egyptian official /

This volume provides a synthetic study of the political, social, and economic processes which formed early Islamic Egypt. Looking at a corpus of previously unknown Arabic papyrus letters, Sijpesteijn examines the reasons for the success of the early Arab conquests and the transition from the pre-Isl...

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Main Author: Sijpesteijn, Petra,
Other Authors: Oxford Scholarship Online.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Arabic
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxvii, 524 pages, 40 unnumbered plates) : illustrations, maps.
Series: Oxford studies in Byzantium.
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