Dear colleagues interested in early Islamic history

The Arabic Papyrology Database team wishes you a merry Christmas and a happy new year. Our Christmas present: new, handy features in the APD and a many many more documents implemented. Please, check http://www.naher-osten.lmu.de/apd under

(a) "Documents". For 2,571 published documents, we provide the full text of the document and information on the document, while for another 6,285 published and unpublished documents, we give information on the document only. We are proud to offer not only records from Egypt and the Middle East but also a quite comprehensive list of Arabic documents from Sicily and Spain: click on "Origin" and choose Sicily or Spain. Weekly updates!

For full bibliographical details, check at http://www.naher-osten.uni-muenchen.de/apb.

(b) "Text": This is our full text search tool. Many features, including
restricting search by time, provenance, document type, etc.

(c) "Lexicon": This site is completely new and allows you to access the lexicon of all implemented texts in several ways: Looking for a lemma, you will have an overview on all actual realizations, hyperlinks giving you direct access to them. You might look for a root, a verbal stem, or a shape/morphemtype (e.g. fāʿil or faʿʿāl). Or try Word categories (functional categories) and Domains (semantic categories), independently or in combined searches. Try it out!

We will be happy to have your feedback on the new features.

Best regards, Eva Youssef-Grob, for the Arabic Papyrology Database team