Nabia Abbott's OIPs are now online

The Oriental Institute announces four older titles now available for free download at the Oriental Institute website:

Oriental Institute Publications 50: The Rise of the North Arabic Script and Its Kur'anic Development, with a Full Description of the Kur'an Manuscripts in the Oriental Institute, by Nabia Abbott
(University of Chicago Press, 1939)


Oriental Institute Publications 75: Studies in Arabic Literary Papyri I: Historical Texts, by Nabia Abbott (University of Chicago Press, 1957)


Oriental Institute Publications 76: Studies in Arabic Literary Papyri II: Qur'anic Commentary and Tradition, by Nabia Abbott (University of Chicago Press, 1967)


Oriental Institute Publications 77: Studies in Arabic Literary Papyri III: Language and Literature, by Nabia Abbott (University of Chicago Press, 1972)

 and this volume which has been online for some time:

SAOC 16. The Monasteries of the Fayyum. Nabia Abbott. 1937.

For an up to date list of all Oriental Institute publications available online see:

The Oriental Institute Open Access Publications