What is it about?
On a papyrus from Egypt dating to the 8th century an early hadith is preserved showing how Muslims in Egypt dealt on a daily basis with questions of religious rituals.
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Why is it important?
The papyrus constitutes not only a very early preservation of this hadith - much older than most manuscripts - through the form it is recorded on the papyrus it also provides us with information on how the papyrus might have been used by Muslims in early Islamic Egypt.
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In this article I use a literary religious tekst preserved on papyrus as a source for social history, namely to understand how Muslims in early Islamic Egypt experienced and experienced, practiced and discussed their religious rituals on a daily basis.
Petra Sijpesteijn
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This page is a summary of: A Ḥadīth Fragment on Papyrus, Der Islam, January 2015, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/islam-2015-0011.
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