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- Title
The Opening Formula and Witness Clauses in Arabic Legal Documents from the Early Islamic Period.
- Authors
KHAN, GEOFFREY
- Abstract
Arabic legal documents from early Islamic Egypt are attested in Arabic papyrus collections. These exhibit a formulaic structure that is clearly distinct from those of the Byzantine Greek tradition of legal documents, which continued to be written in the first Islamic century. The Islamic Arabic documents reflect a legal formulaic tradition that had its origins in the Hijāz of Arabia. This article examines the background of this Hijāzl tradition, with particular focus on the opening formula and the witness clauses. Parallel features are identified in Ancient South Arabian legal texts and in texts of a legal nature from Northern Arabia.
- Subjects
HEJAZ (Saudi Arabia); LEGAL documents; EARLY Islamic Period, 632-1258; ARABIC manuscripts (Papyri); BYZANTINE manuscripts
- Publication
Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2019, Vol 139, Issue 1, p23
- ISSN
0003-0279
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7817/jameroriesoci.139.1.0023