ISAP Online Public Evening Lecture: Marina Rustow (Princeton University): Fatimid Documents as a System and as the Reflection of a System
17.03.2021 um 20:00 Uhr
Zoom link: https://lmu-munich.zoom.us/j/96836880994?pwd=V0dNR3ZYVFFMc1BrYlRMcmRRMHoxZz09
17 March 2021, 20:00 h (CET)
In this talk, I will reflect on Fatimid document production on three levels: my attempts to assess the size and breadth of the phenomenon; how I came to evaluate its coherence or lack thereof; and what these suggest about the state bureaucracy that produced the documents, and stored or discarded them.
This keynote lecture is part of the Connecting Distant Worlds: The International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP) Online Conference (Online, 15-18 March, 2021) more.
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