From Samarqand to Toledo: Greek, Sogdian and Arabic Documents and Manuscripts from the Islamicate World and Beyond: 201 (Islamic History and Civilization, 201)

Documents open up another an approach complementary to the overwhelming richness of literary tradition as preserved in manuscripts. This volume combines studies on Greek, Sogdian and Arabic documents (letters, legal agreements, and amulets) with studies on Arabic and Judeo-Arabic manuscripts (poetry, science and divination).

Andreas Kaplony, PhD (1994), Habilitation (2001), is Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and co-director of the Arabic Papyrology Database (www.naher-osten.lmu.de/apd). He has published widely on Arabic-Islamic history, most recently From Barcelona to Qom: Aramaic, South Arabian, Coptic, Arabic and Judeo-Arabic Documents, ed. Andreas Kaplony and Daniel Potthast (2021).

Matt Malczycki, PhD (2006) is the Joseph A. Kicklighter Associate Professor of History at Auburn University. He previously co-edited New Frontiers of Arabic Papyrology with Sobhi Bouderbala and Sylvie Denoix (2017).