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Arabic Documents from Medieval Nubia

By Geoffrey Khan

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2024
ISBN
1805112309, 9781805112303
Google Books ID
gPO00AEACAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
49 MB (50902208 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
Pages
854\856
Time added
2024-06-26 06:20:26

Description

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. 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 al-most entirely based on historiographical sources, often written a long time after the events described and distorted by tendentious points of view.

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