Scans of documents will be made accessible to the participants by the lecturer.
First Reading:
Sijpesteijn, Petra M. 2019. "al-Fayyūm". In Encyclopaedia of Islam THREE.
Further Readings:
Abbott, Nabia. 1937. The Monasteries of the Fayyūm. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization, 16. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Davoli, Paoloa 1998. L’archeologia urbana nel Fayyum di età ellenistica e romana. Monografie, 1. Rome: Procaccini.
Gaubert, Christian; Mouton, Jean-Michel. 2014. Hommes et villages du Fayyoum dans la documentation papyrologique arabe (Xe - XIe siècles): avec une introduction archéologique de Włodzmierz Godlewski. Hautes études orientales. Moyen et Proche-Orient, 52. Genève: Droz.
Goitein, Shlomo Dov. 1967-1993. A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza. 6 volumes. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Halm, Heinz. 1979-1982. Aegypten nach den mamlukischen Lehensregistern. TAVO Beihefte, B 38. 2 volumes. Wiesbaden: Steiner.
Rāġib, Yūsuf. 1982. Marchands d'étoffes du Fayyoum au IIIe/IXe siècle: d'aprés leurs archives (actes et lettres). Suppléments aux Annales Islamologiques. Cahiers, 2; 5; 14; 16. Publications de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 586; 631; 727; 768. 4 volumes. Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale.
Rapoport, Yossef; Shahar, Ido. 2018. The Villages of the Fayyum: A Thirteenth-Century Register of Rural Islamic Egypt. The Medieval Countryside, 18. Turnhout: Brepols.
Rapoport, Yossef. 2018. Rural Economy and Tribal Society in Islamic Egypt: A Study of al-Nābulusīs 'Villages of the Fayyum'. The Medieval Countryside, 19. Turnhout: Brepols.
Sijpesteijn, Petra M. 2013. Shaping a Muslim State: The World of a Mid-Eighth-Century Egyptian Official. Oxford Studies in Byzantium. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Database:
The Arabic Papyrology Database running under the patronage of the International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP).