Living Documents, Dying Archives: Towards a Historical Anthropology of Medieval Arabic Archives
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https://doi.org/10.3989/alqantara.2011.v32.i2.262Keywords:
Arabic documents, Dhimmīs, Archives, Mamlūk Egypt-SyriaAbstract
Based on an analysis of several collections of Medieval Arabic documents, this paper argues for the study of “archiving practices”, which selectively use documents as parts of wider social strategies of group formation and reproduction. This method also allows us to uncover the temporality (life-cycle) of documents and archives, including their dispersal, cycles of obsolescence and recycling; tactics of erasure, and deliberate destruction.
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