Recording Village Life: A Coptic Scribe in Early Islamic Egypt
- Submitting institution
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Manchester Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 188
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.3998/mpub.8846303
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- ISBN
- 9780472130481
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - Race, religion and community
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph reflects ten years of doctoral and postdoctoral research and draws on a core body of 130 Coptic documents (covering 724-756 CE) from a village in southern Egypt. These are spread across collections in collections in London, Oxford, Berlin, Paris, New York, Ann Arbor, and Cairo. Analysis of this material is situated with a larger body of primarily Coptic and Greek documents written from 690–760 AD and from multiple sites throughout Egypt. The analysis reveals new scribal practices enacted by the Arab rulers to better control administrative practices and fiscal policies.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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