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Nadia Vidro, Arezou Azad, Marina Rustow - State Documents from the Medieval Islamicate World, Inbunden

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Del i serien Islamicate East: New Approaches to Texts and History

State Documents from the Medieval Islamicate World

Av Nadia Vidro, Arezou Azad, Marina Rustow

1879 kr

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The political states that existed in the premodern Islamicate world share a remarkable characteristic: their archives do not survive. As this limits our ability to examine consolidation of power, hierarchy, bureaucracy, legislation and taxation, their political systems often remain only partially understood. Recently, historians have advanced reinterpretations of what constitute 'archives' and 'original documents' and have called attention to state documents preserved in non-archival contexts. In view of these developments, this book highlights important original state documents which are preserved and currently researched and offers new perspectives on alternative sources, such as collections of model documents and state letters, which were traditionally used when sufficient original materials have not yet been recovered.Featuring chapters from specialists in pre-modern history across a range of geographical regions, this volume contains studies on distinctive features of state documents, including their palaeography and diplomatics, as well as historical analyses of administrative systems as they transpire from surviving documents. By bringing together articles on 8th- to 15th-century Islamicate Lands from Egypt to Afghanistan, the book takes a transregional and diachronic perspective to the study of states and their administrations in the medieval Islamicate world.
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Dr Vidro is a cultural and intellectual historian of medieval Jews in the Middle East. She holds a PhD in Hebrew Studies from Cambridge (2010). She is currently Editorial Fellow on the Invisible East Programme at the University of Oxford directed by Prof. Arezou Azad. Dr Vidro is the author of two monographs: A Medieval Karaite Pedagogical Grammar of Hebrew: A Critical Edition and English Translation of Kitāb al-ʿUqūd fī Taṣārīf al-Luġa al-ʿIbrāniyya (Brill, 2013) and Verbal Morphology in the Karaite Treatise on Hebrew Grammar Kitāb al-ʿUqūd fī Taṣārīf al-Luġa al-ʿIbrāniyya (Brill, 2011). She has also co-edited three collections of articles: J.C.E. Watson, N. Vidro et al (eds.), Interconnected Traditions: Semitic Languages, Literatures, Cultures (2025); Vidro, N., R. Vollandt, E.M. Wagner, J. Olszowy-Schlanger (eds), Studies in Semitic Linguistics and Manuscripts: A Liber Discipulorum in Honour of Professor Geoffrey Khan, University of Uppsala Press, Uppsala (2018); and Vidro, N., I. Zwiep, J. Olszowy-Schlanger (eds), A Universal Art: Hebrew Grammar across Disciplines and Faiths, Brill, Leiden/Boston (2014).Arezou Azad is Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Invisible East programme at the Department of Continuing Education at the University of Oxford. She is also Professor and Chair of the Arts and Heritage of Afghanistan at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco) in Paris. She has authored four other peer-reviewed books: The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids (Edinburgh University Press, 2026), The Warehouse of Bamiyan: Economic Life in Medieval Afghanistan (Edinburgh University Press, 2025), Faḍāʾil-i Balkh or “The Merits of Balkh”, an annotated translation of a 13th-century history of Balkh (Edinburgh University Press, 2021) and Sacred Landscape in Medieval Afghanistan (Oxford University Press, 2013). Professor Marina Rustow is Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East and Professor of Near Eastern Studies and History at Princeton University. She is a social historian of the medieval Middle East and the author of Heresy and the Politics of Community: The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate (2008) and The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Medieval Synagogue (2020).

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