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Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World: From Constantinople to Baghdad, 500–1000 CE
Edited by
Jelle
Bruning
,
Janneke H. M.
de Jong
, and
Petra M.
Sijpesteijn
(
Cambridge
:
Cambridge University Press
,
2022
),
xvi
+
508
pp. Price HB £90.00. EAN 978–1009170017.
Lev Weitz Catholic University of America E-mail: weitz@cua.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic
Journal of Islamic Studies, etae030, https://doi.org/10.1093/jis/etae030
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Lev Weitz, Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World: From Constantinople to Baghdad, 500–1000 CE Edited by Jelle Bruning, Janneke H. M. de Jong and Petra M. Sijpesteijn, Journal of Islamic Studies, 2024;, etae030, https://doi.org/10.1093/jis/etae030
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This volume brings together a series of essays that explore the connections between Egypt and other hubs of the eastern Mediterranean world from Late Antiquity into the early Islamic period. The editors have succeeded in their aim of presenting a range of insights into Egypt’s ‘integration into political structures, commercial networks, and cultural constellations’ (p. 1) across the time period concerned, and this book will thus be of great interest to scholars of Egyptian history of that period.
The volume’s greatest strength is the impressive number of disciplinary and methodological approaches, including archaeology and material culture, papyrology, and literary-textual studies, that it manages to assemble under one umbrella. The editors have wisely chosen to organize the chapters not by discipline but under three thematic headings: political and administrative connections, economic connections, and social and cultural connections. As a result, although few of the book’s chapters are explicitly interdisciplinary in and of themselves, the volume as a whole makes a strong case for the necessity of bringing multiple disciplinary approaches to bear in any adequate recounting of the history of Islamic Egypt—or, it follows, of that of any other region of the premodern Islamic world. One might question the degree to which much contemporary scholarship is still burdened by the tendency to view Egypt’s history as either ‘peripheral’ or ‘exceptional’, which the editors offer as the historiographical problem to which their project responds (pp. 1–3). The variety of available source materials and methodological diversity of scholarship on Egypt are rationale enough for a volume like Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World, and these make the book an excellent model for how to study premodern history in a trans-regional framework.
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