Jelle Bruning
Biographic Data
| ID | 702676 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jelle Bruning |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Bruning |
| SIGNATURE | BRUNING J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9935-3505 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Slavery and Dependence in Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt offers rich sources of documentary evidence for the study of the experiences of dependent people, particularly enslaved persons, and how they changed over almost four millennia from the Old Kingdom to the early Islamic period. This volume, the work of a team of scholars spanning the full range of disciplines and languages involved, provides nearly three hundred primary sources in translation, arranged both chronologically and themat…
Voluntary enslavement in an Abbasid-era papyrus letter
Central to this article is an Arabic letter written on papyrus in an Egyptian prison in the late ninth or early tenth century ce . The author complains that he and his companions are being kept in terrible conditions and that they have received insufficient support from outside prison. Interestingly, he indicates that there is a strong inclination among the group to offer themselves as slaves in order to find relief from their crushing living con…
Islamic Tombstones for Slaves from Abbasid-Era Egypt
This article studies tombstones from eighth-to tenth-century CE Egypt that are designed to mark the grave of a Muslim slave.These funerary inscriptions are unusual in that they do not marginalize the enslaved as much as do other early Islamic sources.Furthermore, they reveal otherwise undocumented attitudes towards persons who died as slaves.Offering a thick description of an unpublished tombstone for a ninth-century concubine-mother (umm walad),…
Slavery in Byzantium and the Medieval Islamicate World
Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World
During the period 500–1000 CE Egypt was successively part of the Byzantine, Persian and Islamic empires. All kinds of events, developments and processes occurred that would greatly affect its history and that of the eastern Mediterranean in general. This is the first volume to map Egypt's position in the Mediterranean during this period. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, the individual chapters detail its connections with imperial and schol…
Call to Arms
This article offers an edition, translation, and study of a hitherto unknown text about Ayyubid or early Mamluk Alexandria. The author, one Abū Khuzayma Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, gives a short yet rich description of the city based as much on Alexandria’s real cityscape as on legends. The text treats famous monuments, such as the city’s lighthouse and the Column of the Pillars, as well as less well-known buildings, such as mosques, colleges, wa…
Slave Trade Dynamics in Abbasid Egypt
This article discusses the commercial, socio-economic and legal dynamics of slave trading in Egypt on the basis of papyri from the AH third-fourth/ninth-tenth centuries CE . Particular focus is given to the activities of slavers, the networks of professional slave traders, the socio-economics of slave acquisition, and commercial dynamics at slave markets. Much of the discussion draws on the contents of five contemporary papyrus documents that are…
Developments in Egypt's early Islamic postal system (with an edition ofP.KhaliliII 5)
The importance of documentary sources for the history of the official postal system (barīd) in the first century of Islam has long been acknowledged. In addition to a small number of documents from the eastern part of the Muslim Empire, Egyptian papyri from the 90s/710s and 130s/750s form the main documentary sources for modern studies on the postal system. These papyri belong to a distinct phase in Islamic history. Papyri from other, especially …
A Legal Sunna in Dhikr Ḥaqqs from Sufyanid Egypt
This article presents the edition of a legal document from c. 44/664–5, written in Arabic, that records a woman’s debt of a third of a dinar. It is the oldest preserved original of its kind. A study of the formulary of this document and contemporary copies of similar documents reveals a hitherto overlooked validity clause which states that the recorded financial transactions are in accordance with ‘the normative procedure of the believers’ ( sunn…
Slave Trade Dynamics in Abbasid Egypt
This article discusses the commercial, socio-economic and legal dynamics of slave trading in Egypt on the basis of papyri from the AH third-fourth/ninth-tenth centuries CE . Particular focus is given to the activities of slavers, the networks of professional slave traders, the socio-economics of slave acquisition, and commercial dynamics at slave markets. Much of the discussion draws on the contents of five contemporary papyrus documents that are…
A Legal Sunna in Dhikr Ḥaqqs from Sufyanid Egypt
This article presents the edition of a legal document from c. 44/664–5, written in Arabic, that records a woman’s debt of a third of a dinar. It is the oldest preserved original of its kind. A study of the formulary of this document and contemporary copies of similar documents reveals a hitherto overlooked validity clause which states that the recorded financial transactions are in accordance with ‘the normative procedure of the believers’ ( sunn…
Islamic Tombstones for Slaves from Abbasid-Era Egypt
This article studies tombstones from eighth-to tenth-century CE Egypt that are designed to mark the grave of a Muslim slave.These funerary inscriptions are unusual in that they do not marginalize the enslaved as much as do other early Islamic sources.Furthermore, they reveal otherwise undocumented attitudes towards persons who died as slaves.Offering a thick description of an unpublished tombstone for a ninth-century concubine-mother (umm walad),…
A Legal Sunna in Dhikr Ḥaqqs from Sufyanid Egypt
This article presents the edition of a legal document from c. 44/664–5, written in Arabic, that records a woman’s debt of a third of a dinar. It is the oldest preserved original of its kind. A study of the formulary of this document and contemporary copies of similar documents reveals a hitherto overlooked validity clause which states that the recorded financial transactions are in accordance with ‘the normative procedure of the believers’ ( sunn…
Developments in Egypt's early Islamic postal system (with an edition ofP.KhaliliII 5)
The importance of documentary sources for the history of the official postal system (barīd) in the first century of Islam has long been acknowledged. In addition to a small number of documents from the eastern part of the Muslim Empire, Egyptian papyri from the 90s/710s and 130s/750s form the main documentary sources for modern studies on the postal system. These papyri belong to a distinct phase in Islamic history. Papyri from other, especially …
Call to Arms
This article offers an edition, translation, and study of a hitherto unknown text about Ayyubid or early Mamluk Alexandria. The author, one Abū Khuzayma Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, gives a short yet rich description of the city based as much on Alexandria’s real cityscape as on legends. The text treats famous monuments, such as the city’s lighthouse and the Column of the Pillars, as well as less well-known buildings, such as mosques, colleges, wa…
Slave Trade Dynamics in Abbasid Egypt
This article discusses the commercial, socio-economic and legal dynamics of slave trading in Egypt on the basis of papyri from the AH third-fourth/ninth-tenth centuries CE . Particular focus is given to the activities of slavers, the networks of professional slave traders, the socio-economics of slave acquisition, and commercial dynamics at slave markets. Much of the discussion draws on the contents of five contemporary papyrus documents that are…
Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World
During the period 500–1000 CE Egypt was successively part of the Byzantine, Persian and Islamic empires. All kinds of events, developments and processes occurred that would greatly affect its history and that of the eastern Mediterranean in general. This is the first volume to map Egypt's position in the Mediterranean during this period. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, the individual chapters detail its connections with imperial and schol…
Voluntary enslavement in an Abbasid-era papyrus letter
Central to this article is an Arabic letter written on papyrus in an Egyptian prison in the late ninth or early tenth century ce . The author complains that he and his companions are being kept in terrible conditions and that they have received insufficient support from outside prison. Interestingly, he indicates that there is a strong inclination among the group to offer themselves as slaves in order to find relief from their crushing living con…
Islamic Tombstones for Slaves from Abbasid-Era Egypt
This article studies tombstones from eighth-to tenth-century CE Egypt that are designed to mark the grave of a Muslim slave.These funerary inscriptions are unusual in that they do not marginalize the enslaved as much as do other early Islamic sources.Furthermore, they reveal otherwise undocumented attitudes towards persons who died as slaves.Offering a thick description of an unpublished tombstone for a ninth-century concubine-mother (umm walad),…
Slavery in Byzantium and the Medieval Islamicate World
Slavery and Dependence in Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt offers rich sources of documentary evidence for the study of the experiences of dependent people, particularly enslaved persons, and how they changed over almost four millennia from the Old Kingdom to the early Islamic period. This volume, the work of a team of scholars spanning the full range of disciplines and languages involved, provides nearly three hundred primary sources in translation, arranged both chronologically and themat…
Archaeology and Historical Studies (9 works) · History (9 works) · Ancient history (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Islamic Studies and History (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Classics (4 works) · History (4 works) · Islam (4 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (3 works)