Contents

pp v-viii

List of Maps

pp ix-x

List of Figures

pp xi-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-6

I - Social Groups

pp 7-8

1 - Minority Representation in the Fūtuh Misr of Ibn Abd al-Hakam: Origins and Role

pp 9-36

2 - Greek as a Minority Language in Early Islamic Egypt

pp 37-62

3 - Christian Women in Muslim Egypt: a Public Minority

pp 63-84

II - Law

pp 85-86

4 - The Scholiasts Speak: How Middle Byzantine Jurists Construed the Legal Status of Jews

pp 87-106

5 - Christian and Jewish Communities in Fusṭāṭ: Non-Muslim Topography and Legal Controversies in the Pre-Fatimid Period

pp 107-132

6 - Dispensing Justice in a Minority Context: the Judicial Administration of Upper Egypt under Muslim Rule in the Early EighthCentury

pp 133-156

7 - Polygyny and East Syrian Law: Local Practices and Ecclesiastical Tradition

pp 157-192

Ill - Material Culture

pp 193-194

8 - Tracing Influences in Mozarabic Material Culture: Building Technology in 8-l0th century Hispanic Churches

pp 195-230

9 - The Monasteries of the Wādī al-Naṭrūn between Alexandria and Fusṭāṭ: A Long Transition Viewed from the Pottery (Sixthto Tenth Centuries)

pp 231-258

10 - Paris Syr. 341 and its Illustrations

pp 259-290

IV - Theology and Practice

pp 291-292

11 - Anastasius of Sinai and Chalcedonian Christian Lay Piety in the Early Islamic Near East

pp 293-312

12 - Portraying Early Islam as the milia of Abraham - A Look at the tafsīr Evidence

pp 313-338

13 - Monasticism in Early Islamic Palestine: Contours of Debate

pp 339-392

14 - Islamic Legends about the Birth of Monasticism: A Case Study on the Late Antique Milieu of the Qur’ān and Tafsīr

pp 393-436

15 - The Syriac Baptism of St John: A Christian Ritual of Protection for Muslim Children

pp 437-460

Index

pp 461-469