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An Archive in a Book: Documents and Letters from the Early-Mamluk Period
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Boris Liebrenz
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5. Mai 2020
Abstract
The nature and place of archives in the premodern Islamicate world is a much debated topic and various explanations are offered for the relative scarcity of preserved material as well as the regional imbalance in the record. One factor that stands out in this discussion is the general prominence of counter-archival practices for the survival of what we are studying today. This contribution is the first to examine one such practice that has led to the preservation of a great number of documents: the reuse of discarded papers for the production of bindings. The case study looks at the binding of Leiden Or. 122, which preserved letters, decrees, and lists from Egypt and Syria at the beginning of the Mamluk reign. They likely belonged to a large household in Cairo, more precisely located in the Ayyubid palace Iṣṭabl al-Quṭbiyya. The article offers an edition of the material with an analysis of the historical circumstances, namely the eventful early years of Mamluk rule in Egypt and Syria.
Online erschienen: 2020-05-05
Erschienen im Druck: 2020-05-04
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Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
binding fragments;
Mamluk;
Arabic documents;
Arabic letters;
household
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelseiten
- Axel Havemann (February 20, 1949 – October 11, 2019)
- Articles
- Q 30: 2‒5 in Near Eastern Context
- Note sur la réception du Testament d’Abrahamdans la tradition arabo-islamique
- Retrouver et comprendre les textes perdus des historiens arabes : l’exemple du Kitāb al-Futūḥde ʿĪsā b. Muḥammad b. Sulaymān b. Abī al-Muhāǧir
- The Life and Times of the Ayyūbid Vizier al-Ṣāḥib b. Shukr
- An Archive in a Book: Documents and Letters from the Early-Mamluk Period
- Schuldfähigkeit trotz fehlender Willensfreiheit? Eine Analyse der Position Ibn Taymiyyas. Mit einer Übersetzung seiner al-Qaṣīda at-tāʾiyya
- Sunnifying ʿAlī: Historiography and Notions of Rebellion in Ibn Kathīr’s Kitāb al-Bidāya wa-l-nihāya
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- Shahab Ahmed’s Contradictions: A Critical Engagement withWhat Is Islam?
- Muhammad Ali Amir-Moezzi et al. (eds.), L’Esotérisme Shi’ite: ses racines et ses prolongements/Shiʿi Esotericism: Its Roots and Developments, Brepols: Bibliothèque de l’Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, vol. 177, and the Institute of Ismaili Studies, Turnhout: Brepols, 2016, 857 pp., ISBN 978-2-503-56874-4.
- Fozia Bora, Writing History in the Medieval Islamic World: The Value of Chronicles as Archives, London, I.B. Tauris, 2019, xviii + 250 pp., ISBN 978-1-7845-3730-2.
- Tawfiq Daʿadli, Esoteric Images. Decoding the Late Herat School of Painting, Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture 25, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2019, 177 pp., index, 40 figures. ISBN 978-90-04-3988-9 (hardback).
- Werner Diem, Fürsprachebriefe in der arabisch-islamischen Welt des 8.‒14. Jahrhunderts: eine sozial- und mentalitätsgeschichtliche Untersuchung, Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2015, 408 S., ISBN: 3-9565012-9-2, 978-3-95650-129-6.
- Avraham Elmakias, The Naval Commanders of Early Islam. A Prosographical Approach, (trans. Limor Yungman), Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2018, 209 pages, including maps and three annexes, ISBN 978-1-4632-0645-1.
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- Boris Liebrenz and Christoph Rauch, eds., Manuscripts, Politics and Oriental Studies: Life and Collections of Johann Gottfried Wetzstein (1815‒1905) in Context, (Islamic Manuscripts and Books 19), Leiden/Boston: Brill 2019, XXIII + 437 pp., 99 fig., ISBN 978-90-04-39019-5.
- Jean-Michel Mouton, Dominique Sourdel (†) und Janine Sourdel-Thomine, Propriétés rurales et urbaines à Damas au moyen âge. Un corpus de 73 documents juridiques entre 310/922 et 669/1271, (Documents relatifs à l’histoire des croisades 23), Paris: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 2018, ISBN 2877543641.
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- Nicolai Sinai, The Qurʾan: A Historical-Critical Introduction, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2017, 242 pp., ISBN 978-0-7486-9577-5.
- Farida Stickel, Zwischen Chiliasmus und Staatsräson. Religiöser Wandel unter den Ṣafaviden, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2019 (Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten 70), XV+305 S., ISBN 978-3-11-052965-4.
- Brian Ulrich, Arabs in the Early Islamic Empire: Exploring al-Azd Tribal Identity, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019, viii, 259 + viii pp. incl. index and two genealogical charts, ISBN 978-1-4744-3679-3.
- Annotated Bibliography “Arabic Papyrology and Diplomatics” New publications 2018 and addenda 2017
