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Shaping a Muslim State - The World of a Mid-Eighth-Century Egyptian Official (Hardcover)
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Shaping a Muslim State - The World of a Mid-Eighth-Century Egyptian Official (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Byzantium
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Shaping a Muslim State provides a synthetic study of the political,
social, and economic processes which formed early Islamic Egypt.
Looking at a corpus of previously unknown Arabic papyrus letters,
dating from between AD 730 and 750, which were written to a Muslim
administrator and merchant in the Fayyum oasis in Egypt,
Sijpesteijn examines the reasons for the success of the early Arab
conquests and the transition from the pre-Islamic Byzantine system
and its Egyptian executors to an Arab/Muslim state. By examining
the impact of Islam on the daily lives of those living under its
rule, the volume highlights the striking newness of Islamic society
while also acknowledging the influence of the ancient societies
which preceded it. The book applies theoretical discussions about
governance, historiography, (social) linguistics, and source
criticism to understand the dynamics of early Islamic Egypt, as
well as the larger process of state formation in the Islamic world.
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