Author	Sijpesteijn, Petra, author
Title	Shaping a Muslim state : the world of a mid-eighth-century Egyptian official / Petra M. Sijpesteijn
Imprint	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199673902.001.0001
Descript	1 online resource (xxvii, 524 pages, 40 unnumbered plates) : illustrations, maps

This volume 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, Sijpesteijn examines the reasons for the success of the early Arab conquests and the transition from the pre-Islamic Byzantine system to an Arab/Muslim state

1. ᢤd All塨 ibn As᤬ active 8th century -- Correspondence
2. N塪id ibn Muslim
3. active 8th century -- Correspondence
4. Paleography
5. Arabic
6. Arabic language -- Papyri
7. Egypt -- History -- 640-1250
8. Egypt -- History -- 640-1250 -- Sources
9. Egypt -- Civilization -- 638-1798
10. Egypt -- Civilization -- 638-1798 -- Sources
11. Egypt -- Religion -- 640-
12. Islam -- Egypt -- History