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Title: Reconstructing Archival Practices in Abbasid Baghdad
Author(s): Berkel, M.L.M. van
Publication year: 2014
Source: Journal of Abbasid Studies, vol. 1, iss. 1, (2014), pp. 7-22
Number of Pages: 16 p.
ISSN: 2214-2363
Publication type: Article / Letter to editor

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Subject: niet-RU-publicaties
Organization: Geschiedenis
Journal title:
Journal of Abbasid Studies
Volume: vol. 1
Issue: iss. 1
Page start: p. 7
Page end: p. 22
Abstract:
The Abbasid administration relied extensively on the use of written documents. The central administrative apparatus in Baghdad, with its numerous specialised bureaus, seems to have been one of the main producers of documents and it must have possessed some of the largest archives of its era. However, only few documents issued by and written for the central administration have survived in their original form. Through an analysis of references found in narrative sources, this article seeks to provide a reconstruction of the functioning of the archives of the central administration in Baghdad during the caliphate of al-Muqtadir (r. 295/908-320/932).

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