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Bills, Letters and Deeds

Bills, Letters and Deeds PDF Author: Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art
Publisher: Kibo Foundation
ISBN: 9780197276051
Category : Art
Languages : ar
Pages : 292

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Book Description
This volume of the Khalili Collection catalogues approximately 250 Arabic documents written on papyrus. Each accompanied by a plate, the entries are catalogued according to the type of document, firstly accounts, secondly legal documents, and thirdly, letters. Most of the documents date from the eighth or ninth centuries A.D. A large number of the papyri came from Fustat, the old Arab capital of Egypt. Nearly all published Arabic papyri came from southern Egypt. The Khalili collection contains the first Arabic document that has been discovered to have been written in northern Iraq. The documents are an important primary source for socio-economic history, palaeography, and diplomatics. The text is supported by notes, up-to-date bibliography, and index.