Alexander T. Schubert received his Ph.D. in ancient history from Cornell University in 2000. He is currently the executive director of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology.Petra M. Sijpesteijn holds the Chair of Arabic Language and Culture at Leiden University and is Chargée de recherche at the Institut de Recherche et Histoire des Textes at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris. She obtained her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University in 2004, and was a junior research fellow at Christ Church, Oxford (2003-2007). She is the author of The Formation of a Muslim State in late Umayyad Egypt (Oxford 2013).

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsNotes on Editions and DatesHugh Kennedy, IntroductionADMINISTRATION & GOVERNMENTAnne Regourd, A Late Ayyubid Report of Death Found at Quṣayr al-Qadīm (Egypt)Jairus Banaji, On the Identity of Shahrālānyōzān in the Greek and Middle Persian Papyri from EgyptAlain Delattre, Le monastère de Baouît et l’administration arabeShaun O’Sullivan, Fiscal Evidence from the Nessana PapyriCOMMERCE & TRAVELAnna Selander, Travel in Coptic Documentary TextsFrédéric Bauden, Le transport de marchandises et de personnes sur le Nil en 823 A.H./1420 È.C.LANGUAGE & CULTUREMostafa El-Abbadi, P.Cair.Arab. III 167: A Discussion of the Akhmīm DeclarationRachel Stroumsa, Greek and Arabic in NessanaSebastian Richter, The Master Spoke: “Take One of ‘the Sun’ and One Unit of Almulgam.” Hitherto Unnoticed Coptic Papyrological Evidence for Early Arabic AlchemyTascha Vorderstrasse, Terms for Vessels in Arabic and Coptic Documentary Texts and their Archaeological and Ethnographic CorrelatesMat Malczycki, A Quranic Text on Papyrus: P.Utah.Atiya.Ar. 342NEW EDITIONS & COLLECTIONSR.G. Khoury, Les papyrus arabes de Heidelberg disparus. Essai de reconstruction et d’analyseAlia Hanafi, Two New Arabic Editions: A Land Survey from Ihnās and Ḥadīths Concerning Funerary PracticeNicole Hansen, Sunshine Wine on the NileIndex

“This is a concise book worth both for its amount and variety of information, addressing a surprisingly wide range of scientific questions regarding the possibility of using material and textual evidence in the search of information on either the intellectual, or cultural, economic, and political history of Egypt and Palestine; furthermore, it offers a kick off for an in depth research to students of maritime history, to researchers of the social history of the Middle East, of the fiscal policy of the era in the region as well as to students of the history Quran researching for the nihil obstat and imprimatur of the suras, to archeologists assessing cultural artifacts, to sociolinguists working on multilingualism in the Mediterreanean and papyrologists trying to link to all these fields of reseach.”Stavros Nikolaidis

Alexander T. Schubert received his Ph.D. in ancient history from Cornell University in 2000. He is currently the executive director of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology.Petra M. Sijpesteijn holds the Chair of Arabic Language and Culture at Leiden University and is Chargée de recherche at the Institut de Recherche et Histoire des Textes at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris. She obtained her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University in 2004, and was a junior research fellow at Christ Church, Oxford (2003-2007). She is the author of The Formation of a Muslim State in late Umayyad Egypt (Oxford 2013).

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsNotes on Editions and DatesHugh Kennedy, IntroductionADMINISTRATION & GOVERNMENTAnne Regourd, A Late Ayyubid Report of Death Found at Quṣayr al-Qadīm (Egypt)Jairus Banaji, On the Identity of Shahrālānyōzān in the Greek and Middle Persian Papyri from EgyptAlain Delattre, Le monastère de Baouît et l’administration arabeShaun O’Sullivan, Fiscal Evidence from the Nessana PapyriCOMMERCE & TRAVELAnna Selander, Travel in Coptic Documentary TextsFrédéric Bauden, Le transport de marchandises et de personnes sur le Nil en 823 A.H./1420 È.C.LANGUAGE & CULTUREMostafa El-Abbadi, P.Cair.Arab. III 167: A Discussion of the Akhmīm DeclarationRachel Stroumsa, Greek and Arabic in NessanaSebastian Richter, The Master Spoke: “Take One of ‘the Sun’ and One Unit of Almulgam.” Hitherto Unnoticed Coptic Papyrological Evidence for Early Arabic AlchemyTascha Vorderstrasse, Terms for Vessels in Arabic and Coptic Documentary Texts and their Archaeological and Ethnographic CorrelatesMat Malczycki, A Quranic Text on Papyrus: P.Utah.Atiya.Ar. 342NEW EDITIONS & COLLECTIONSR.G. Khoury, Les papyrus arabes de Heidelberg disparus. Essai de reconstruction et d’analyseAlia Hanafi, Two New Arabic Editions: A Land Survey from Ihnās and Ḥadīths Concerning Funerary PracticeNicole Hansen, Sunshine Wine on the NileIndex

“This is a concise book worth both for its amount and variety of information, addressing a surprisingly wide range of scientific questions regarding the possibility of using material and textual evidence in the search of information on either the intellectual, or cultural, economic, and political history of Egypt and Palestine; furthermore, it offers a kick off for an in depth research to students of maritime history, to researchers of the social history of the Middle East, of the fiscal policy of the era in the region as well as to students of the history Quran researching for the nihil obstat and imprimatur of the suras, to archeologists assessing cultural artifacts, to sociolinguists working on multilingualism in the Mediterreanean and papyrologists trying to link to all these fields of reseach.”Stavros Nikolaidis

Alexander T. Schubert received his Ph.D. in ancient history from Cornell University in 2000. He is currently the executive director of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology.Petra M. Sijpesteijn holds the Chair of Arabic Language and Culture at Leiden University and is Chargée de recherche at the Institut de Recherche et Histoire des Textes at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris. She obtained her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University in 2004, and was a junior research fellow at Christ Church, Oxford (2003-2007). She is the author of The Formation of a Muslim State in late Umayyad Egypt (Oxford 2013).

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsNotes on Editions and DatesHugh Kennedy, IntroductionADMINISTRATION & GOVERNMENTAnne Regourd, A Late Ayyubid Report of Death Found at Quṣayr al-Qadīm (Egypt)Jairus Banaji, On the Identity of Shahrālānyōzān in the Greek and Middle Persian Papyri from EgyptAlain Delattre, Le monastère de Baouît et l’administration arabeShaun O’Sullivan, Fiscal Evidence from the Nessana PapyriCOMMERCE & TRAVELAnna Selander, Travel in Coptic Documentary TextsFrédéric Bauden, Le transport de marchandises et de personnes sur le Nil en 823 A.H./1420 È.C.LANGUAGE & CULTUREMostafa El-Abbadi, P.Cair.Arab. III 167: A Discussion of the Akhmīm DeclarationRachel Stroumsa, Greek and Arabic in NessanaSebastian Richter, The Master Spoke: “Take One of ‘the Sun’ and One Unit of Almulgam.” Hitherto Unnoticed Coptic Papyrological Evidence for Early Arabic AlchemyTascha Vorderstrasse, Terms for Vessels in Arabic and Coptic Documentary Texts and their Archaeological and Ethnographic CorrelatesMat Malczycki, A Quranic Text on Papyrus: P.Utah.Atiya.Ar. 342NEW EDITIONS & COLLECTIONSR.G. Khoury, Les papyrus arabes de Heidelberg disparus. Essai de reconstruction et d’analyseAlia Hanafi, Two New Arabic Editions: A Land Survey from Ihnās and Ḥadīths Concerning Funerary PracticeNicole Hansen, Sunshine Wine on the NileIndex

“This is a concise book worth both for its amount and variety of information, addressing a surprisingly wide range of scientific questions regarding the possibility of using material and textual evidence in the search of information on either the intellectual, or cultural, economic, and political history of Egypt and Palestine; furthermore, it offers a kick off for an in depth research to students of maritime history, to researchers of the social history of the Middle East, of the fiscal policy of the era in the region as well as to students of the history Quran researching for the nihil obstat and imprimatur of the suras, to archeologists assessing cultural artifacts, to sociolinguists working on multilingualism in the Mediterreanean and papyrologists trying to link to all these fields of reseach.”Stavros Nikolaidis