TY - BOOK ID - 19332531 TI - Documentary Arabic private and business letters on papyrus : form and function, content and context PY - 2010 SN - 3110247046 9786612912054 3110247054 1282912054 9783110247046 9783110247053 9781282912052 PB - New York, NY ; Berlin : De Gruyter, DB - UniCat KW - Arabic letters KW - Letter writing, Arabic KW - Manuscripts, Arabic (Papyri) KW - History and criticism. KW - History. KW - Arabic papyri KW - Arabic letter writing KW - Manuscripts, Arabic (Papyri). KW - Lettres (Genre littéraire) arabes KW - Papyrus arabes KW - Manuscripts (Papyri) KW - Arabic literature KW - History and criticism KW - History KW - Letter writing KW - Correspondance KW - Histoire et critique KW - Histoire KW - Arabic letters. KW - Arabisation. KW - Epistolography. KW - Islamisation. KW - Correspondance arabe KW - Égypte KW - Sources KW - Antiquité KW - Moyen-âge KW - Égypte KW - Antiquité KW - Moyen-âge UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:19332531 AB - Arabic letters on papyrus challenge the modern reader. There are few to no diacritical dots to distinguish homographs, no systematic spacing between single words, and in the majority of cases a low degree of graphical structuring. However, contemporary readers usually read and understood these documents easily - probably because the recipient of a letter knew what to expect. The letters are formulaic, and their information packaging follows an algorithm typical for their time and content. Here formulaic letter writing means not only the reuse of the same formulae or topoi but expressing though ER -