Book contents
- Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World
- Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures, Graphs, and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Transliteration, Names, and Dates
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Additional material
- Introduction
- Part I Political and Administrative Connections
- Part II Economic Connections
- Part III Social and Cultural Connections
- Chapter 10 The Destruction of Alexandria: Religious Imagery and Local Identity in Early Islamic Egypt
- Chapter 11 Scribal Networks, Taxation, and the Role of Coptic in Marwanid Egypt
- Chapter 12 A Changing Position of Greek? Greek Papyri in the Documentary Culture of Early Islamic Egypt
- Chapter 13 Regional Diversity in the Use of Administrative Loanwords in Early Islamic Arabic Documentary Sources (632–800 CE): A Preliminary Survey
- Chapter 14 Babylon/Qaṣr al-Shamʿ: Continuity and Change at the Heart of the New Metropolis of Fusṭāṭ
- Chapter 15 Utilizing Non-Muslim Literary Sources for the Study of Egypt, 500–1000 CE
- Index
- References
Chapter 15 - Utilizing Non-Muslim Literary Sources for the Study of Egypt, 500–1000 CE
from Part III - Social and Cultural Connections
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 December 2022
Book contents
- Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World
- Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures, Graphs, and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Transliteration, Names, and Dates
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Additional material
- Introduction
- Part I Political and Administrative Connections
- Part II Economic Connections
- Part III Social and Cultural Connections
- Chapter 10 The Destruction of Alexandria: Religious Imagery and Local Identity in Early Islamic Egypt
- Chapter 11 Scribal Networks, Taxation, and the Role of Coptic in Marwanid Egypt
- Chapter 12 A Changing Position of Greek? Greek Papyri in the Documentary Culture of Early Islamic Egypt
- Chapter 13 Regional Diversity in the Use of Administrative Loanwords in Early Islamic Arabic Documentary Sources (632–800 CE): A Preliminary Survey
- Chapter 14 Babylon/Qaṣr al-Shamʿ: Continuity and Change at the Heart of the New Metropolis of Fusṭāṭ
- Chapter 15 Utilizing Non-Muslim Literary Sources for the Study of Egypt, 500–1000 CE
- Index
- References
Summary
The quantity of “non-Muslim” sources available for the study of Egypt during the period under consideration is increasingly coming into sharper focus, in large part due to the publication of several important surveys and literature guides over the past two decades. Most prominent among these are Robert Hoyland’s Seeing Islam as Others Saw it, James Howard-Johnston’s Witnesses to a World Crisis, the initial volumes of Christian–Muslim Relations, and a host of articles by Harald Suermann, Tito Orlandi, Jos van Lent, and Adel Sidarus.1 Moreover, the plenary papers and bibliographies circulated at the quadrennial Coptic congresses, which are published in the congresses’ proceedings, are vital in exploring the breadth of available sources and keeping abreast of developments and publications across a wide range of disciplines focusing at least in part on (Christian) Egypt.2 (The Jewish community in Egypt is scantly documented in the literary and documentary sources of the period studied here.
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- Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean WorldFrom Constantinople to Baghdad, 500-1000 CE, pp. 465 - 492Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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