Shaping a Muslim State: The World of a Mid-Eighth-Century Egyptian Official

by Petra Sijpesteijn

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019967390X
• ISBN13: 9780199673902
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.7" x 8.6"