Reconstructing Archival Practices in Abbasid Baghdad
The Abbasid administration relied extensively on the use of written documents. The central administrative apparatus in Baghdad, with its numerous specialised bureaus, seems to have been one of the main producers of documents and it must have possessed some of the largest archives of its era. However...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2014
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Journal of Abbasid Studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 7-22 |
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Abbasid administration
narrative sources
archival practices
writerly culture
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