RT Article
T1 Sachfahndung nach einem Raubmord in Saqāwa
JF Der Islam
VO 98
IS 1
SP 175
OP 180
A1 Shahin, Ayman Aly ca. 20./21. Jh.
LA German
PB De Gruyter
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/175763410X
AB This article presents the edition of a late 3rd/9th- or early 4th/10th-century search warrant for stolen goods (P.Cair.EgLib.inv. 536v). The scribe reports that two black men (aswadayn) were traveling on two donkeys, one of which was also loaded with a saddlebag of money, jewellery and clothes. Upon reaching the Upper Egyptian village of Saqāwa, the two black men were assaulted and murdered, and the goods and donkeys stolen. This document corroborates descriptions in historical works of frequent rebel attacks in various regions of Egypt in the 3rd/9th and 4rd/10th centuries.
K1 Arabic papyrus
K1 official letter
DO 10.1515/islam-2021-0007