BILL, LETTERS AND DEEDS: Arabic Papyri of the 7th to 11th centuries AD

by Geoffrey Khan

Dating mainly from the 8th and 9th centuries, the 258 papyri in this volume include official and legal documents, receipts, accounts and private letters. Together, they provide an invaluable source of information on scripts, grammar, and literary styles, as well as on social and economic life in the early Islamic period.

292 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Geoffrey Allan Khan is a British linguist who has held the post of Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge since 2012. He has published grammars for the Aramaic dialects of Iraq and Iran; and leads the North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Database.