Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Notes on Editions and Dates Hugh Kennedy, Introduction ADMINISTRATION & GOVERNMENT Anne Regourd, A Late Ayyubid Report of Death Found at Qusayr al-Qadim (Egypt) Jairus Banaji, On the Identity of Shahralanyozan in the Greek and Middle Persian Papyri from Egypt Alain Delattre, Le monastere de Baouit et l'administration arabe Shaun O'Sullivan, Fiscal Evidence from the Nessana Papyri COMMERCE & TRAVEL Anna Selander, Travel in Coptic Documentary Texts Frederic Bauden, Le transport de marchandises et de personnes sur le Nil en 823 A.H./1420 E.C. LANGUAGE & CULTURE Mostafa El-Abbadi, P.Cair.Arab. III 167: A Discussion of the Akhmim Declaration Rachel Stroumsa, Greek and Arabic in Nessana Sebastian Richter, The Master Spoke: "Take One of 'the Sun' and One Unit of Almulgam." Hitherto Unnoticed Coptic Papyrological Evidence for Early Arabic Alchemy Tascha Vorderstrasse, Terms for Vessels in Arabic and Coptic Documentary Texts and their Archaeological and Ethnographic Correlates Mat Malczycki, A Quranic Text on Papyrus: P.Utah.Atiya.Ar. 342 NEW EDITIONS & COLLECTIONS R.G. Khoury, Les papyrus arabes de Heidelberg disparus. Essai de reconstruction et d'analyse Alia Hanafi, Two New Arabic Editions: A Land Survey from Ihnas and Hadiths Concerning Funerary Practice Nicole Hansen, Sunshine Wine on the Nile Index