One of the still oft-repeated truisms about Muslim societies before the Ottoman / Early Modern period is that they left no archives of documents behind, precisely because status was negotiated in ways different from, and more informal than, those in contemporaneous Europe. Konrad Hirschler’s discoveries of reused documents in codices are only one example. Continue reading “Documentary evidence – evidence on documents?”
Category: Tawqiana
This is basically the same as the Tulunia, just with the text I worked on for my PhD. It is a hybrid between diary, notebook, and chronicle and is quite unique in that mix. It holds a lot of information I did not include or did not even find interesting during the PhD but do find intriguing now. This section does thus update also my earlier findings.
