- 220 pages
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Medieval Strategies of Entreaty from North Africa to Eurasia
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Table of contents
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- How to Ask in the Medieval World: An Introduction
- “The Caliph Calls You to the Book of God”: Writing to Rebels in the Early Islamic Period
- Maintaining Friendship and Commercial Relations in Eighth- Century Egypt: Three Letters from Abū Yūsuf to Abū Yazīd
- Between Practical Petitioning and Divine Intervention: Entreaties to the Shiʿi Imams in the Ninth Century CE
- Forging Historical and Diplomatic Ties in the Islamic West: The Letter of a Berber Emir to the Umayyad Caliph, 317 ah (929 CE)
- Asking for a Friend: Travel Requests and Social Relations in Umayyad Egypt
- Gender and the Art of Asking: Letters of Request to Distinguished Women Preserved in the Cairo Geniza
- Hidden Private Entreaties behind Two Public Steles in the Mid-Tang Dynasty
- Ghostwriting and Patronage-Seeking Letters in Song Dynasty China, 960–1279
- Beyond Epistolary Standards? The Language of Entreaty in Political and Diplomatic Communications from Thirteenth-Century Iberia
- Supplication, Authority, Militancy: Epistolary Conventions and Rhetorical Strategies in Letters by Female Members of the Burgundian Dynasty (Fifteenth Century)
- Index