Chronique d’Égypte

This article presents the edition of an Arabic papyrus fragment currently kept at the papyrus collection of the Austrian National Library under the inventory number P. Vindob. Inv. A.P. 1757. The fragment contains only the name of the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadir bi-llāh (r. 295-320/908-932) and part of the title amīr al-muʾminīn (the commander of the believers). Although too poor to afford any profitable historical discussion, the fragment remains important as it records the name of the caliph al-Muqtadir bi-llāh, whose long reign had unfortunately left very little documentary evidence on papyrus.

This article presents an edition, translation, and study of an Arabic contract of sale on parchment from the fifth/eleventh century Fayyum. The sale all but certainly concerns guardianship rights to the territory of Ṭalīt, an important but still little-documented Fayyum village. The document is further notable for the identities of the parties and witnesses, all of whom belong either to the Arab tribe of Banū ʿĀmir or an obscure group of Šāfiʿīs; and for the document’s late date during Fatimid Egypt’s great crisis of the later fifth/eleventh century.

Notes critiques et exégétiques relatives à des textes des périodes gréco-romaine, chrétienne et arabe.