Christians and Muslims in Early Islamic Egypt

225 Pages·2022·22.389 MB·English

by  Lajos Berkes

Christians and Muslims
in Early Islamic Egypt
Edited by
Lajos Berkes
Christians and Muslims in Early Islamic Egypt
American Studies in Papyrology
Series editor: Rodney Ast
Editorial Board: Christelle Fischer-Bovet, AnneMarie Luijendijk, Tonio Sebastian Richter
Vol. 56: Christians and Muslims in Early Islamic Egypt
Lajos Berkes
Vol. 55: Yale Papyri in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library IV
Hélène Cuvigny, Ruth Duttenhöfer, and Ann Ellis Hanson
Vol. 54: Ostraka and Other Inscribed Material from Bīr Shawīsh, Small Oasis:
Excavation Seasons 2005 and 2007
Marek Dospěl
Vol. 53: Papyrological Texts in Honor of Roger S. Bagnall
Rodney Ast, Hélène Cuvigny, Todd Hickey, and Julia Lougovaya
Vol. 52: The New Epigrams of Palladas: A Fragmentary Papyrus Codex (P.CtYBR Inv. 4000)
Kevin Wilkinson
Vol. 51: A Sixth-Century Tax Register from the Hermopolite Nome
Roger S. Bagnall, James G. Keenan, and Leslie MacCoull
Vol. 50: A Prosopography of Byzantine Aphrodito
Giovanni Ruffini
Vol. 49: A Transportation Archive from Fourth-Century Oxyrhynchus (P.Mich. XX)
P. J. Sijpensteijn, Klaas Worp, and Traianos Gagos
Vol. 48: To Mega Biblion: Book-Ends, End-Titles, and Coronides in Papyri with Hexametric Poetry
Francesca Schironi
Vol. 47: In Pursuit of Invisibility: Ritual Texts from Late Roman Egypt
Richard Phillips
Vol. 46: Monastic Estates in Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt: Ostraca, Papyri,
and Studies in Honour of Sarah Clackson
Anne Boud’hors, James Clackson, and Catherine Lewis
Vol. 45: Annotations in Greek and Latin Texts from Egypt
Kathleen McNamee
Christians and
Muslims in Early
Islamic Egypt
Edited by Lajos Berkes
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Contents
Editorial Remarks vii
List of Illustrations ix
Introduction: A Papyrological Perspective on Christians and Muslims 1
in Early Islamic Egypt
Lajos Berkes
Egypt and the Caliphate
Imperial Arabic: Some Notes on Visual Symbolism 13
Eugenio Garosi
Imperial Policies and the Organization of the War Fleet in Early Islamic Egypt 33
Jelle Bruning
Adapting to New Realities: Administration and Bureaucracy
Babylone-Fust.āt. dans les sources papyrologiques coptes 53
Anne Boud’hors
The Overseers of the Barns of Babylon: Two Arabic-Greek Receipts 65
Lajos Berkes—James M. S. Cowey—Naïm Vanthieghem
À propos de H.ayyān b. Suraygˇ. Un surintendant des finances égyptien de 77
l’époque omeyyade
Naïm Vanthieghem
Nouveaux textes sur les pagarques du Fayoum au VIIIe siècle 87
Esther Garel—Naïm Vanthieghem
Rāshid b. Khālid: An Amīr in Middle Egypt under the Umayyads 127
Nikolaos Gonis
Western Thebes and the Arab Administration of Pre-Abbasid Egypt 135
Jennifer Cromwell
vi contents
Naming Practices and Language Change
Remarques textuelles et méthodologiques sur les surnoms et sobriquets dans les 151
papyrus tardifs (autour des P.Apoll.)
Jean Gascou
Draft of a Late Coptic Letter 161
Anne Boud’hors—Maher A. Eissa
Bilingualism and Mono-/Bigraphia at the Nexus of Magical Traditions: 169
From Egyptian-Greek to Coptic-Arabic Magical Texts
Edward O. D. Love
Contributors 203
Index 205
Papyrological Index 209
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Editorial Remarks
Several contributions include (re)editions of papyrus texts: they have been numbered for easier
referencing throughout the volume as usual in papyrological volumes. The abbreviation for the
editions in this volume is P.Christ.Musl. All dates are AD/CE unless specified otherwise. Edi-
tions of Greek papyri are quoted according to the abbreviations of John F. Oates et al., Checklist
of Editions of Greek, Latin, Demotic and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca and Tablets, 5th ed. (Bulletin of
the American Society of Papyrologists Suppl. 9) (Oxford: Oxbow, 2001). The up-to-date elec-
tronic version is accessible at http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/papyrus/texts/
clist_papyri.html and http://papyri.info/docs/checklist. Editions of Arabic papyri are quoted
according to the abbreviations of P. M. Sijpesteijn, J. F. Oates, and A. Kaplony, “Checklist of
Arabic Papyri,” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 42 (2005): 127–66. The up-to-
date electronic version is accessible at http://www.naher-osten.uni-muenchen.de/forschung/
papyrologie/apb/index.html. Various databases of Trismegistos are cited throughout; see https://
www.trismegistos.org/index.php. For the metadata of Coptic documentary papyri the Brussels
Coptic Database is being cited in the volume; see http://dev.ulb.ac.be/philo/bad/copte/baseuk
.php?page=accueiluk.php. For the text and metadata of Greek (and on occasion Coptic) papyri
the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (DDbDP) is referenced; see papyri.info. In most
cases, when the introduction or commentary of a papyrological edition is cited, it is referred
to with author, siglum, and page number rather than to a separate article in the bibliography.
The bibliographies, transliterations, and editions of the contributions in French only partially
conform to the Chicago Manual of Style, because an effort has been made to respect their own
conventions.

Illustrations
Tables
Table 1. Muslim Officials in Theban Documents 136
Table 2. Muslim Officials Named in Prescripts 140
Table 3. Chronology of the Muslim Officials 144
Table 4. Areas of Control of the Arab Officials 145
Table 5. Bilingual and Mono-/Bigraphic Magical Manuscripts 196
Figures
Fig. 1. Anonymous, drachm, AH 75 (694/5 CE), without mint (Damascus?) 23
Fig. 2. Anonymous (frozen Khusrō), drachm, without date, without mint (Damascus?) 23
Fig. 3. Bishr b. Marwān, drachm, Aqūlā, 73 AH (692/3 CE) 24
Fig. 4. P.Christ.Musl. 1 70
Fig. 5. P.Christ.Musl. 2 r and 2 v 73
Fig. 6. P.Christ.Musl. 3 r 74
Fig. 7. P.Christ.Musl. 3 v 75
Fig. 8. P.Christ.Musl. 4 r 81
Fig. 9. P.Christ.Musl. 4 v 81
Fig. 10. P.Christ.Musl. 5 r 84
Fig. 11. P.Christ.Musl. 5 v 84
Fig. 12. P.Christ.Musl. 6 r 93
Fig. 13. P.Christ.Musl. 6 v 93
Fig. 14. P.Christ.Musl. 7 95
Fig. 15. P.Christ.Musl. 8 97
Fig. 16. P.Christ.Musl. 9–10 98
Fig. 17. P.Christ.Musl. 11–14 101
Fig. 18. P.Christ.Musl. 11 et 14 facsimilé 102
Fig. 19. P.Christ.Musl. 12–13 facsimilé 103
Fig. 20. P.Christ.Musl. 15 105
Fig. 21. P.Christ.Musl. 16 r 107
Fig. 22. P.Christ.Musl. 16 v 108
Fig. 23. P.Christ.Musl. 17 113
Fig. 24. P.Christ.Musl. 18 117
Fig. 25. P.Christ.Musl. 19–21: photo et facsimilé 119
Fig. 26. P.Christ.Musl. 22 121