Medieval Strategies of Entreaty from North Africa to Eurasia

Petra M. Sijpesteijn (PhD Princeton) is Professor of Arabic at Leiden University and the founding president of the International Society for Arabic Papyrology. Her research focuses on the experiences of those living under Islamicate rule, including Jews and Christians.

• List of Illustrations"Introduction," by Birte Kristiansen and Petra M. Sijpesteijn“'The Caliph Calls You to the Book of God': Writing to Rebels in the Early Islamic Period," by Hannah-Lena Hagemann"'Maintaining Friendship and Commercial Relations in Eighth-Century Egypt': Three Letters from Abū Yūsuf to Abū Yazīd," by Petra M. Sijpesteijn"Between Practical Petitioning and Divine Intervention: Entreaties to the Shiʿi Imams in the Ninth Century CE," by Edmund Hayes"Forging Historical and Diplomatic Ties in the Islamic West: The Letter of a Berber Emir to the Umayyad Caliph, 317 AH (929 CE)," by Aurélien Montel"Asking for a Friend: Travel Requests and Social Relations in Umayyad Egypt," by Cecilia Palombo and Eline Scheerlink"Gender and the Art of Asking: Letters of Request to Distinguished Women Preserved in the Cairo Geniza," by Oded Zinger"Hidden Private Entreaties behind Two Public Steles from the Mid-Tang Dynasty," by Jialong Liu"Ghostwriting and Patronage-Seeking Letters in Song Dynasty China, 960–1279," by Beverly Bossler"Beyond Epistolary Standards? The Language of Entreaty in Political and Diplomatic Communications from Thirteenth-Century Iberia," by Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo"Supplication, Authority, Militancy: Request Strategies in Late Medieval Princely Women’s Letters from Burgundy," by Margreet Brandsma