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Jews, Christians, and Muslims in medieval and early modern times
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This volume brings together articles on the cultural, religious, social and commercial interactions among Jews, Christians and Muslims in the medieval and early modern periods. Written by leading scholars in Jewish studies, Islamic studies, medieval history and social and economic history, the contributions to this volume reflect the profound influence on these fields of the volume’s honoree, Professor Mark R. Cohen.
| Title |
Jews, Christians, and Muslims in medieval and early modern times : a festschrift in honor of Mark R. Cohen / edited by Arnold E. Franklin [and three others] A. L. Udovitch, foreword. |
|---|---|
| Publisher |
Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill |
| Creation Date |
2014 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references and index. English |
| Content |
Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Arnold E. Franklin , Roxani Eleni Margariti , Marina Rustow and Uriel Simonsohn -- How Mediterranean Was Goitein’s Mediterranean Society? / Norman A. Stillman -- Aṣḥābunā l-tujjār—Our Associates, the Merchants: Non-Jewish Business Partners of the Cairo Geniza’s India Traders / Roxani Eleni Margariti -- Pilgrimage and Charity in the Geniza Society / Miriam Frenkel -- Poor Relief in Ottoman Jewish Communities / Yaron Ayalon -- “What Sort of Sermon is This?”: Leadership, Resistance and Gender in a Communal Conflict / Oded Zinger -- Why Did Medieval Northern French Jewry (Ṣarfat) Disappear? / Ivan G. Marcus -- Are Gaonic Responsa a Reliable Source for the Study of Jewish Conversion to Islam? A Comparative Analysis of Legal Sources / Uriel Simonsohn -- What’s in a Name? ʿAbdallāh born Isḥāq born al-Shanāʿa al-Muslimānī l-Isrāʾīlī and Conversion to Islam in Medieval Cordoba / David J. Wasserstein -- Jews among the Grandees of Ottoman Egypt / Jane Hathaway -- Remembrance and Oblivion of Religious Persecutions: On Sanctifying the Name of God (Qiddush ha-Shem) in Christian and Islamic Countries during the Middle Ages / Menahem Ben-Sasson -- The Muḥammadan Stipulations: Dhimmī Versions of the Pact of ʿUmar / Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman -- Jews in Sharīʿa Courts: A Family Dispute from the Cairo Geniza / Jessica M. Marglin -- Perception of Piracy in Islamic Sharīʿa / Hassan S. Khalilieh -- Jew and Serf in Medieval France Revisited / William Chester Jordan -- Cleanliness and Convivencia: Jewish Bathing Culture in Medieval Spain / Olivia Remie Constable -- Friendship and Hierarchy: Rhetorical Stances in Geniza Mercantile Letters / Jessica L. Goldberg -- More than Words on a Page: Letters as Substitutes for an Absent Writer / Arnold E. Franklin -- The Diplomatics of Leadership: Administrative Documents in Hebrew Script from the Geniza / Marina Rustow -- Financial Troubles: A Mamluk Petition / Petra M. Sijpesteijn -- “Az mi-lifnei vereishit”: The Suffering Messiah in the Seventh Century / Martha Himmelfarb -- A Panegyric Qaṣīda by Yehuda ha-Levi, Its Antecedent by Shelomo Ibn Gabirol, and Its Afterlife / Raymond P. Scheindlin -- Hebrew Vestiges in Saʿadya’s Tafsīr / Sasson Somekh -- Epilogue / Natalie Zemon Davis -- Index. |
| Series |
Christians and Jews in Muslim Societies, 2212-5523 Volume 2 |
| Extent |
1 online resource (441 p.) |
| Language |
English |
| Copyright Date |
©2014 |
| National Library system number |
997010702803905171 |
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