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These ten papers originated at a conference held in Cairo in 2002, which reflected the growing accessibility of medieval Islamic sources, paralled by, and perhaps the result of, greater academic interest in the medieval Near East. The specialised and annotated papers, discuss the potential role of papyrology in the study of early Islamic Egypt, Coptic sources, unpublished papyri, the emergence of Arabic words in Coptic legal documents, travel and trade, Byzantine Greek, the Christians of Umayyad Egypt, town quarters and specific texts. One paper in French, the rest in English.