Publications and Projects of the International Society for Arabic Papyrology
Publications
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al-Bardiyyat is the newsletter of ISAP which ISAP members also receive by mail. Those interested in contributing to the next issue can e-mail Lennart Sundelin (sundelin{at}princeton.edu).
- The proceedings of the Cairo conference DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE AND THE HISTORY OF EARLY ISLAMIC EGYPT, which took place at Cairo from 23-25 March 2002 has appeared with Brill Academic Publishers in Leiden. Information on the book can be found here.
- The proceedings of the Granada conference DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE AND THE HISTORY OF THE EARLY ISLAMIC MEDITERRANEAN, which took place in Granada from 24-27 March 2004 has appeared with Brill. Information on the book can be found here.
- The Checklist for Arabic Papyrus editions providing standardized abbreviations for documentary text editions on papyrus and other writing material in Arabic has been published in the Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 42 (2005) 127-166 more. An updated version of the Arabic checklist can be consulted on line. Suggestions for additions or corrections can be e-mailed to Petra M. Sijpesteijn (p.m.sijpesteijn at hum.leidenuniv.nl) or Andreas Kaplony (kaplony at oriental.uzh.ch).
Projects
- At the
Arabic Papyrology School (www.ori.uzh.ch/aps)
which was developed at the University of Zurich students of all levels can train themselves in the reading of Arabic papyrus and paper documents. The Papyrus School is set up so that students can test their progress by working with increasingly harder texts. The web-site contains a dictionary with the vocabulary appearing in the texts and explanatory notes on the texts.
- The University of Zurich is currently also working on the establishment of an
Arabic Papyrology Database (www.ori.uzh.ch/apd)
which will contain editions of published Arabic texts on papyrus and paper. The database will be searchable and will contain bibliographical notes. Corrections on the texts suggested in scholarly publications will be included in the editions appearing in the Database.
