Author(s): Marina Rustow
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year: 2020
Language: English
City: Princeton, NJ
Front matter
Contents
Technical Note
Maps
Introduction
PART 1_Source Survival
1_The Geniza: Blind Spots and Cataclysms
2_The Storage Capacity of State Power
3_The Corpus: Its Shape and Coherence
PART 2_Chancery Practice
4_Paper: The Search for a Sustainable Support
5_Layout: Early Arabic Chancery Norms
6_Script: The Impact of the Abbasid East
7_Imperial Norms: The Abbasid Chancery
8_The Fatimid Petition-and-Response Procedure
PART 3_The Ecology of the Documents
9_Supply: A Proliferation of Decrees
10_Administrative Manuals and Nonmanuals
11_The Source: The Chancery
12_Copying, Storage, and Dissemination
13_The Probative Value of Documents: Archiving and Registration
Appendix to Chapter 13: Fatimid ʿAlāʾim and Registration Marks
PART 4_The Problem of Archives
14_The Rotulus as an Instrument of Performance
15_The Ontological Status of the Decree
16_Archives, Documents, and thePersistence of “Despotism”
Notes
Notes to Introduction
Notes to Chapter 1
Notes to Chapter 2
Notes to Chapter 3
Notes to Chapter 4
Notes to Chapter 5
Notes to Chapter 6
Notes to Chapter 7
Notes to Chapter 8
Notes to Chapter 9
Notes to Chapter 10
Notes to Chapter 11
Notes to Chapter 12
Notes to Chapter 13
Notes to Chapter 14
Notes to Chapter 15
Notes to Chapter 16
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Subject Index
Index of Manuscripts with Shelfmarks
Photo Credits and Permissions
