In Supplier Dieu dans lâÃgypte toulounide, Mathieu Tillier and Naïm Vanthieghem provide the edition, translation and study of a booklet preserved on papyrus and dated 267/880-881. It offers a selection of some forty hadiths heard by KhÄlid ibn YazÄ«d, a minor local scholar, concerning the invocations that every pious Muslim has to use when addressing God. Composed during the reign of the famous governor Aḥmad ibn ṬūlÅ«n, the first autonomous ruler of Islamic Egypt, this manuscript bears exceptional testimony to the way traditional sciences were taught at the time. Not only does it open an unprecedented window on the milieu of ordinary transmitters, whose names soon fell into oblivion, but it also sheds new light on the Tulunidsâ religious policy and on the islamisation of Egypt.
Naïm Vanthieghem, Ph.D (2015), is a Research fellow of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and has been working at the Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes (IRHT) since 2017. He is a specialist in Ancient and Medieval Egypt. His work focuses on the edition of documentary sources discovered in the Nile Valley, and on their importance for economic, social and intellectual history.
Annexe: Les principaux savants Ãgyptiens morts entre 255/869 et 280/893-894 dâaprès al-á¸ahabÄ«, Taʾrīḫ al-islÄm Bibliographie Planches Index des personnes et des tribus Index des lieux et des monuments Index des notions
All interested in the history of Islamic knowledge and culture, and anyone concerned with hadith studies, Islamic piety and the history of Islamisation.