The international conference Living the End of Antiquity: Individual Histories from Byzantine to Islamic Egypt, which took place in May 2017 at the University of Basel, gathered established and early-career scholars alike to discuss change and continuity from late antique to early Islamic Egypt through individual experiences--delving into political-administrative, economic, religious, and (other) social dynamics to explore phenomena of stability and disruption during the transition from the classical to the postclassical world. The conference formed part of the interdisciplinary three-year research project "Change and Continuities from a Christian to a Muslim Society--Egyptian Society and Economy in the 6th to 8th Centuries" directed by Sabine R. Huebner and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation from 2016 to 2018

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations of Quoted Editions -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Individual Histories From Byzantine to Islamic Egypt -- Local Magnates, but Mobile: Elite Dynamics in Byzantine Provinces -- "...So that the Descendants of the Descendants [of the Muslims] May Profit by It": ʻUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, the Muslim Army and the Decision not to Divide the Lands of Alexandria -- Situating the Figure of Papas, Pagarch of Edfu at the End of the Seventh Century: The Contribution of the Coptic Documents -- Cross-Cultural Parameters of Scribal Politesse in the Correspondence of Arab-Muslim Officials from Early Islamic Egypt -- An Important Family in Sixth-Century Hermopolis: New Insights from the Basel Papyrus Collection -- The Will of Flavius Phoibammon -- The Figure of Apollos, Father of Dioscorus, in the Light of Coptic Letters From Sixth-Century Aphrodito -- A Village Scribe on the Eve of Change -- Petosiris the Scribe -- Family Archives in Pre-Transition Egypt -- On the Edge of the Empire at the End of the Late Roman Period: The Khārga Oasis Sites as a Case Study -- Slave and Free at the End of Antiquity -- Women in Need: Debt-Related Requests from Early Medieval Egypt -- Economic Conditions for Merchants and Traders at the Border Between Egypt and Nubia in Early Islamic Times -- Andreas, Son of Petros, and the Monastery of Dayr al-Rūmī: An Usurious Monk? or a Monastic Record Vault? -- Index of names -- Index locorum

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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