An 'amir between Umayyads and Abbasids: A Note on P.KRU 70

Chronique d’Égypte, 2018

Chronique d’Égypte 93 (2018) 218–220.

2021

This paper explores the content and context of a papyrus (no. 56) from Nessana (modern Nitzana) that contains a contract between a Christian cleric named Kyrin and a certain al-Aswad ibn ʿAdī. The document sets out the conditions for the release of Kyrin's son from al-Aswad for a payment of money and guarantees the absolute freedom thereafter of both the son and the father. 1 The text is bilingual inasmuch as two languages are involved, Arabic and Greek, but the Arabic is only a summary of the Greek text, not a translation of it. It is presumably the presence of al-Aswad ibn ʿAdī that has required the inclusion of an Arabic précis and, though his name is not religiously specific, there is a strong likelihood that al-Aswad belonged to the ranks of the new conquerors and was probably a Muslim.

2010

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Der Islam, 2019

Der Islam, 2019

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The Journal of Juristic Papyrology, 2019

The paper offers a reading of remnants of the Arabic text of SPP VIII 1198. The Greek part of this bilingual document has been known for a long time, but it could not be dated precisely with the indiction date preserved in the text. The dating formula that can be deciphered in the Arabic part allows the reconstruction of the exact dates for this and another tax receipt, PERF 573 = SBXVIII 13771, issued most probably by the same official. Different tax quotas indicated in the document are discussed as well. Moreover, an effort is made in the article to understand the identity of the issuing official and the document’s place of origin. Although it is almost certain that the tax receipt comes from the Egyptian province, it can be hypothesized that it was written originally in the capital city Al-Fusṭāṭ. Finally, some general conclusions about the process of the Arabisation of the Egyptian administration are drawn.