Arabic letters on papyrus challenge the modern reader. There are
few to no diacritical dots to distinguish homographs, no systematic
spacing between single words, and in the majority of cases a low
degree of graphical structuring. However, contemporary readers
usually read and understood these documents easily - probably
because the recipient of a letter knew what to expect. The letters
are formulaic, and their information packaging follows an algorithm
typical for their time and content. Here formulaic letter writing
means not only the reuse of the same formulae or topoi but
expressing thoughts in a predictable linguistic way and order, both
as a matter of readability and as one of adequacy and politeness.
The main concern of this work is to discover these unwritten rules
and norms behind Arabic letter writing on papyrus.
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