Asking for a Friend
Travel Requests and Social Relations in Umayyad Egypt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22125918 |
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| Authors | Cecilia Palombo (0000-0003-4856-0595), Eline Scheerlinck (0000-0002-1910-9722) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 83-102 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Medieval Globe (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2377-3553 • E-ISSN: 2377-3561 |
| Publisher | Arc Humanities Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17302/mgl.2023.a919411 |
| Language | EN |
This article explores strategies for obtaining travel documents in Umayyad Egypt, with a focus on the role of intermediaries in those processes. Examining Arabic, Coptic, and Greek letters requesting travel documents for others, it engages with various levels of the provincial administration, revealing, in each letter, several layers of request and mediation. Moreover, the analysis of the letters and their language sheds light on specific strategies employed by the senders to make their requests more effective
| Highly cited | No |
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