BEO 69 – Constituting archives in the Middle East yesterday and today: legitimacy, materiality, temporality.
In the past ten years, historians of medieval Islam have become increasingly interested in the subject of archives, which are no longer viewed only as sources but as historical objects in their own right, and have questioned the ways in which the various documentary collections have been constituted. Through the consideration of the materiality of archives, their work has largely refuted the previously widespread idea that...