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"In the eighth century CE, the Christian theologian John Damascene referred to a Book of the Cow among the sacred texts of the Muslims. P. Hamb. Arab. 68 not only represents so far the earliest known Qur'anic manuscript preserved on papyrus, but also bears witness to an independent circulation of the Su¯ra of The Cow in late seventh- or early eighth-century Egypt. Significant deviations from the commonly accepted text of the Qur'an suggest that this copy was rapidly discarded. The present volume offers a complete edition as well as a thorough philological and historical study of the manuscript"--

Cows. --- Qurʼan. --- Criticism, Textual.

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"In the eighth century CE, the Christian theologian John Damascene referred to a Book of the Cow among the sacred texts of the Muslims. P. Hamb. Arab. 68 not only represents so far the earliest known Qur'anic manuscript preserved on papyrus, but also bears witness to an independent circulation of the Su¯ra of The Cow in late seventh- or early eighth-century Egypt. Significant deviations from the commonly accepted text of the Qur'an suggest that this copy was rapidly discarded. The present volume offers a complete edition as well as a thorough philological and historical study of the manuscript"--

Cows. --- Qurʼan. --- Qurʼan. --- Criticism, Textual.

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This volume presents an edition of a corpus of Arabic documents datable to the 11th and 12th centuries AD that were discovered by the Egypt Exploration Society at the site of the Nubian fortress Qaṣr Ibrīm (situated in the south of modern Egypt). The edition of the documents is accompanied by English translations and a detailed analysis of their contents and historical background. The documents throw new light on relations between Egypt and Nubia in the High Middle Ages, especially in the Fatimid period. They are of particular importance since previous historical studies from the perspective of Arabic sources have been almost entirely based on historiographical sources, often written a long time after the events described and distorted by tendentious points of view.