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Geoffrey Khan
The history of Eastern Iran (Khurasan) in the Abbasid period has
so far been based on literary sources, which, regrettably, tell
us practically nothing of its administration, and the documentary
material in Arabic has related almost entirely to papyri from Egypt.
The lacuna has now, however, been dramatically filled by the discovery
of the documents published in this volume, apparently from a private
archive of landowners in north-eastern Afghanistan in the later
8th century AD. They appear to complement the more or less contemporary
corpus of Bactrian documents in the Khalili Collection published
by Nicholas Sims-Williams, which mention many of the persons and
place-names in the Arabic documents. Together the two collections
are of prime importance for the history of daily life in early Islamic
Khurasan.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr Geoffrey Khan is Lecturer in Hebrew and Aramaic at the Faculty
of Oriental Studies, Cambridge University.
DETAILS
184 pages
39.7x 21.0 cm
hardback
2005
1-874780-71-4
£23 $46
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