This book presents information on a number of towns and villages in Egypt, documented from Arabic papyri dating back to the first Muslim settlement in Egypt. It relates a list of Egyptian localities - towns and villages - quoted in these papyri, both at the archæological and cultural levels. It is a good addition to the Arab documentation.The author is publishing here for the first time seven texts from the papyri collection of the Papyrus Institute at the University of Heidelberg, in Germany. A map and numerous pictures, illustrative of these papyri are printed in this book, with explanation and comments, making this publication useful for students and researchers specialized in archæological and papyrological studies and also interesting for the usual reader.