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Projecting a New Empire - Formats, Social Meaning, and Mediality of Imperial Arabic in the Umayyad and Early Abbasid Periods (Hardcover)
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Projecting a New Empire - Formats, Social Meaning, and Mediality of Imperial Arabic in the Umayyad and Early Abbasid Periods (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East
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Seventh and eighth-century papyri, inscriptions, and coins
constitute the main evidence for the rise of Arabic as a hegemonic
language emerging from the complex fabric of Graeco-Roman-Iranian
Late Antiquity. This volume examines these sources in order to
gauge the social ecology of Arabic writing within the broader late
antique continuum. Starting from the functional interplay of Arabic
with other languages in multilingual archives as well as the
mediality of practices of public Arabic writing, the study
correlates the rise of Arabic as an imperial language to social
interactions: the negotiation between the Arab-Muslim imperial
elite and non-Arabicized regional elites of the early Islamic
empire. Using layout, formulae and technical terminology to trace
common patterns and disruptions across sources from the Atlantic to
Central Asia, the volume illuminates the distinctive formal
varieties of official Umayyad and early Abbasid imperial documents
compared to informal Arabic writings as well as to neighboring
scribal traditions in other languages. The volume connects
documentary practices to broader imperial policies, opening an
unprecedented window into the strategies of governance that lay at
the core of the early Islamic empire.
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