Shaping a Muslim State

Auteur: Sijpesteijn, Petra M. (Professor of Arabic Language and Culture, Leiden University)
Editeur: Oxford University Press
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-Islamic Byzantine system to an Arab/Muslim state.
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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-Islamic Byzantine system to an Arab/Muslim state.
ISBN / EAN 9780199673902
Auteur Sijpesteijn, Petra M. (Professor of Arabic Language and Culture, Leiden University)
Editeur Oxford University Press