LEADER 04313nam a22004695i 4500001 99125173039506421 005 20230823004825.0 006 m|||||o||d|||||||| 007 cr||||||||nn|n 008 200229t20202020nju fo d z eng d 020 0-691-18952-8 024 7 10.1515/9780691189529 |2doi 035 (CKB)4100000010010323 035 (OCoLC)1134695469 035 (MdBmJHUP)muse76232 035 (MiAaPQ)EBC5994901 035 (DE-B1597)535124 035 (DE-B1597)9780691189529 035 (OCoLC)1132420189 035 (EXLCZ)994100000010010323 040 DE-B1597 |beng |cDE-B1597 |erda 041 0 eng 044 nju |cUS-NJ 050 4 DT173 072 7 REL037010 |2bisacsh 082 04 962.02 |223 100 1 Rustow, Marina, |eauthor. |4aut |4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 245 14 The Lost Archive : |bTraces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue / |cMarina Rustow. 264 1 Princeton, NJ : |bPrinceton University Press, |c[2020] 264 4 |c©2020 300 1 online resource 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 computer |bc |2rdamedia 338 online resource |bcr |2rdacarrier 490 0 Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World ; |v63 588 0 Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020) 520 The lost archive of the Fatimid caliphate (909-1171) survived in an unexpected place: the storage room, or geniza, of a synagogue in Cairo, recycled as scrap paper and deposited there by medieval Jews. Marina Rustow tells the story of this extraordinary find, inviting us to reconsider the longstanding but mistaken consensus that before 1500 the dynasties of the Islamic Middle East produced few documents, and preserved even fewer.Beginning with government documents before the Fatimids and paper's westward spread across Asia, Rustow reveals a millennial tradition of state record keeping whose very continuities suggest the strength of Middle Eastern institutions, not their weakness. Tracing the complex routes by which Arabic documents made their way from Fatimid palace officials to Jewish scribes, the book provides a rare window onto a robust culture of documentation and archiving not only comparable to that of medieval Europe, but, in many cases, surpassing it. Above all, Rustow argues that the problem of archives in the medieval Middle East lies not with the region's administrative culture, but with our failure to understand preindustrial documentary ecology.Illustrated with stunning examples from the Cairo Geniza, this compelling book advances our understanding of documents as physical artifacts, showing how the records of the Fatimid caliphate, once recovered, deciphered, and studied, can help change our thinking about the medieval Islamicate world and about premodern polities more broadly. 546 In English. 505 00 |tFrontmatter -- |tContents -- |tTechnical Note -- |tIntroduction: Middle East History's Archive Problem -- |tI. Source Survival -- |t1. The Geniza: Blind Spots and Cataclysms -- |t2. The Storage Capacity of State Power -- |t3. The Corpus: Its Shape and Coherence -- |tII. Chancery Practice -- |t4. Paper: The Search for a Sustainable Support -- |t5. Layout: Early Arabic Chancery Norms -- |t6. Script: The Impact of the Abbasid East -- |t7. Imperial Norms: The Abbasid Chancery -- |t8. The Fatimid Petition-and- Response Procedure -- |tIII. The Ecology of the Documents -- |t9. Supply: A Proliferation of Decrees -- |t10. Administrative Manuals and Nonmanuals -- |t11. The Source: The Chancery -- |t12. Copying, Storage, and Dissemination -- |t13. The Probative Value of Documents: Archiving and Registration -- |tAppendix to Chapter 13: Fatimid ʿAlāʾim and Registration Marks -- |tIV. The Problem of Archives -- |t14. The Rotulus as an Instrument of Performance -- |t15. The Ontological Status of the Decree -- |t16. Archives, Documents, and the Persistence of "Despotism" -- |tNotes -- |tAcknowledgments -- |tBibliography -- |tSubject Index -- |tIndex of Manuscripts with Shelfmarks -- |tPhoto Credits and Permissions 650 0 Fatimites |xHistory |vSources. 653 Abbasid Caliphate. 653 Al-Dawla. 653 Ancien Régime. 653 Anecdote. 653 Arabic script. 653 Arabic. 653 Arabs. 653 Archive. 653 Archivist. 653 Authentication. 653 Ayyubid dynasty. 653 Book hand. 653 Bookbinding. 653 Bureaucrat. 653 Buyid dynasty. 653 Cairo Geniza. 653 Caliphate. 653 Calligraphy. 653 Calque. 653 Cambridge University Library. 653 Cartulary. 653 Central Asia. 653 Chancery hand. 653 Civilization. 653 Consideration. 653 Copts. 653 Copying. 653 Copyist. 653 Decree. 653 Deed. 653 Despotism. 653 Documents (magazine). 653 Dowry. 653 Ductus (linguistics). 653 Dunhuang. 653 Encyclopaedia of Islam. 653 Epigraphy. 653 Fatimid Caliphate. 653 Fustat. 653 Genizah. 653 Geoffrey Khan. 653 Governance. 653 Government Office. 653 Grammar. 653 Historiography. 653 Ibn Muqla. 653 Illustration. 653 Infrastructure. 653 Injunction. 653 Institution. 653 Investiture. 653 Islam. 653 Jews. 653 Laissez-faire. 653 Late Antiquity. 653 Leopold von Ranke. 653 Literacy. 653 Literature. 653 Manuscript. 653 Middle East. 653 Mosque. 653 Muslim world. 653 Narrative. 653 Near East. 653 Orientalism. 653 Ottoman Empire. 653 Papyrology. 653 Papyrus. 653 Parchment. 653 Payment. 653 Petitioner. 653 Philology. 653 Poetry. 653 Precedent. 653 Proportion (architecture). 653 Publication. 653 Quantity. 653 Rabbinic literature. 653 Raw material. 653 Receipt. 653 Records management. 653 Recto and verso. 653 Religious text. 653 Rescript. 653 Reuse. 653 Romance languages. 653 Rotulus. 653 Ruler. 653 Sanskrit. 653 Sasanian Empire. 653 Sharia. 653 Sitt al-Mulk. 653 Sogdia. 653 Tax collector. 653 Tax. 653 Treatise. 653 Umayyad Caliphate. 653 Vassal. 653 Vizier. 653 Writing. 776 |z0-691-15647-6 830 0 Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world. 906 BOOK