Introduction Jelle Bruning, Janneke H. M. de Jong and Petra M. Sijpesteijn; Part 1. Political and Administrative Connections: 1. Egypt in the age of Justinian: connector or disconnector? Peter Sarris; 2. At the crossroads of regional settings: Egypt, 500–1000 CE Yaacov Lev; 3. The frontier zone at the first cataract before and at the time of the Muslim conquest (fifth to seventh centuries) Stefanie Schmidt; 4. Islamic historiography on early Muslim relations with Nubia Sylvie Denoix; 5. Local tradition and imperial legal policy under the Umayyads: the evolution of the early Egyptian school of law Mathieu Tillier; 6. Ibn Ṭūlūn's pacification campaign: sedition, authority and empire in Abbasid Egypt Matthew S. Gordon; Part 2. Economic Connections: 7. Between Ramla and Fusṭāṭ: Archaeological evidence for Egyptian contacts with early Islamic Palestine (eighth-eleventh centuries) Gideon Avni; 8. Egypt's connections in the early Caliphate: political, economic and cultural Petra M. Sijpesteijn; 9. Trading activities in the Eastern Mediterranean through ceramics between late antiquity and fatimid times (ca. seventh-tenth/eleventh centuries) Joanita Vroom; Part 3. Social and Cultural Connections: 10. The destruction of Alexandria: religious imagery and local identity in early Islamic Egypt Jelle Bruning; 11. Scribal networks, taxation and the role of coptic in Marwanid Egypt Jennifer Cromwell; 12. A changing position of Greek? Greek papyri in the documentary culture of early Islamic Egypt Janneke H. M. de Jong; 13. Regional diversity in the use of administrative loanwords in early Islamic Arabic documentary sources (632–800 CE): a preliminary survey Eugenio Garosi; 14. Babylon/Qaṣr al-Shamʿ: continuity and change at the heart of the new metropolis of Fusṭāṭ Peter Sheehan and Alison L. Gascoigne; 15. Utilizing non-Muslim literary sources for the study of Egypt, 500–1000 CE Maged S.A. Mikhail; Index.