Petra Sijpesteijn - Selected Publications#

Shaping a Muslim State: The World of a Mid-Eighth-Century Egyptian Official (Oxford Studies in Byzantium). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

‘Arabic medical-magical manuscripts: a living tradition,’ in Marcela A. Garcia Probert and Petra M. Sijpesteijn (eds.), Amulets and talismans of the Middle East and North Africa in context. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2022: 78-104

‘The Arabic script and language in the earliest papyri: Mirrors of change,’ Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 49 (2020): 433-494

‘Loyal and knowledgeable Supporters: Integrating Egyptian Élites in Early Islamic Egypt’ in Walter Pohl et al. (eds.), Empires and Communities in the Post-Roman and Islamic World (c. 400-1000 CE). Oxford University Press, 2021: 329-359.

'Establishing Local Elite Authority in Egypt through Arbitration and Mediation,’ in S. Heidemann and H.-L. Hagemann (eds.), Regional and Transregional Elites: Connecting the Early Islamic Empire (Studies in the history and culture of the Middle East 36). Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020: 387-406

‘Expressing New Rule: Seals from Early Islamic Egypt and Syria (600-800),’ The Medieval Globe 4.1 (2018): 99-148

‘Shaving Hair and Beards in early Islamic Egypt: An ‘Arab Innovation?” Al-Masāq. Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean 30.1 (2018): 9-25

‘Policing, Punishing and Prisons in the Early Islamic Egyptian Countryside (640-850 CE),’ in Alain Delattre, Marie Legendre and Petra M. Sijpesteijn (eds.), Authority and Control in the Countryside: From Antiquity to Islam in the Mediterranean and Near East (6th-10th Century). Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2018: 547-588

‘An Early Umayyad Papyrus Invitation for the Hajj,’ Journal of Near Eastern Studies 73 (2014): 179-190

‘Landholding Patterns in Early Islamic Egypt,’ Journal of Agrarian Change 9 (2009): 120-133