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Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt

Author : Mark R. Cohen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400853583
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt written by Mark R. Cohen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under three successive Islamic dynasties--the Fatimids, the Ayyubids, and the Mamluks--the Egyptian Office of the Head of the Jews (also known as the Nagid) became the most powerful representative of medieval Jewish autonomy in the Islamic world. To determine the origins of this institution, Mark Cohen concentrates on the complex web of internal and external circumstances during the latter part of the eleventh century. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt

Author : Mark R. Cohen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608033150
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt written by Mark R. Cohen and published by . This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sources on Jewish Self-Government in the Polish Lands from Its Inception to the Present

Author : François Guesnet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789004191365
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (913 download)

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Download or read book Sources on Jewish Self-Government in the Polish Lands from Its Inception to the Present written by François Guesnet and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This source-reader invites you to encounter the world of one thousand years of Jewish self-government in eastern Europe. It tells about the beginnings in the Middle Ages, delves into the unfolding of communal hierarchies and supra-communal representation in the early modern period, and reflects on the impact of the partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and of growing state interference, as well as on the communist and post-communist periods. Translated into English from Hebrew, Latin, Yiddish, Polish, Russian, German, and other languages, in most cases for the first time, the sources illustrate communal life, the interdependence of civil and religious leadership, the impact of state legislation, Jewish-non-Jewish encounters, reform projects and political movements, but also Jewish resilience during the Holocaust"--

The Jews of Medieval Islam

Author : Daniel Frank
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004493239
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Jews of Medieval Islam written by Daniel Frank and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains fifteen articles on the communal, social, and intellectual life of medieval Jewry in Islamic lands. The book is divided into three parts. Part I, 'Communities and Their Leaders' is devoted to the old Babylonian center in the East and the Andalusian community in the West. Part II, 'Self-Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Others' investigates the ways in which medieval Jews living under Islam viewed their gentile neighbours and expressed their own identity. Part III, 'Religious Philosophy, Mysticism, and Spirituality in Islam and Judaism' explores the impact of Islamic thought on the Jewish intellectual tradition. The collection depicts a civilization at once unified and diverse, revealing both consistent patterns of leadership and scholarship as well as distinctively local identities and collective memories.

The Jews in Medieval Egypt

Author : Miriam Frenkel
Publisher : Lands and Ages of the Jewish P
ISBN 13 : 9781618117465
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Jews in Medieval Egypt written by Miriam Frenkel and published by Lands and Ages of the Jewish P. This book was released on 2021 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish life in medieval Egypt, hitherto an obscure and understudied theme, is revealed in this volume in all its complexity and richness. This book offers the most recent scholarship on the communal, judicial, economic, lingual, familial, and spiritual aspects of Jewish life medieval Islamic Egypt.

Jews, Christians and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern Times

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004267840
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Jews, Christians and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern Times written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Routledge Revivals: Medieval Jewish Civilization (2003)

Author : Norman Roth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351676970
Total Pages : 1258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Revivals: Medieval Jewish Civilization (2003) written by Norman Roth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 1258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2003, this is the first encyclopedic work to focus exclusively on medieval Jewish civilization, from the fall of the Roman Empire to about 1492. Based on the research of an international, multidisciplinary team of specialist contributors, the more than 150 alphabetically organized entries, written by scholars from around the world, include biographies, countries, events, social history, and religious concepts. The coverage is international, presenting people, culture, and events from various countries in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

Crusades

Author : Benjamin Z. Kedar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351389041
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Crusades written by Benjamin Z. Kedar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative, homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions, but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades also incorporates the Society's Bulletin.

Administration of Justice in Medieval Egypt

Author : Yaacov Lev
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474459269
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Administration of Justice in Medieval Egypt written by Yaacov Lev and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how political and administrative forces shaped the way justice was applied in medieval Egypt. It introduces the model that evolved during the 7th to the 9th centuries, which involved four judicial institutions: the cadi, the court of complaint (mazalim), the police/shurta (responsible for criminal justice) and the Islamized market law (hisba) administrated by the market supervisor/muhtasib. Literary and non-literary sources are used to highlight how these institutions worked in real-time situations such as the famine of 1024-1025, which posed tremendous challenges to the market supervisors in Cairo. The inner workings of the court of complaint during the 11th-12th century Fatimid state are revealed through array of documentary sources. Further, non-Muslim communities, their courts and their sphere of responsibilities are treated as integral to how justice was dispensed in medieval Islam. Documentary sources offers significant insights into these issues and illuminate the scope and limits of non-Muslims self-rule/judicial autonomy.In sum, the book shows that the administrative and political history of the judiciary in medieval Egypt implicitly and explicitly illuminates broader questions about religious and social forces that shaped the lives of medieval people in the Middle East, Muslims and non-Muslims alike.

The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 5, Jews in the Medieval Islamic World

Author : Phillip I. Lieberman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009038591
Total Pages : 1216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 5, Jews in the Medieval Islamic World written by Phillip I. Lieberman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 5 examines the history of Judaism in the Islamic World from the rise of Islam in the early sixth century to the expulsion of Jews from Spain at the end of the fifteenth. This period witnessed radical transformations both within the Jewish community itself and in the broader contexts in which the Jews found themselves. The rise of Islam had a decisive influence on Jews and Judaism as the conditions of daily life and elite culture shifted throughout the Islamicate world. Islamic conquest and expansion affected the shape of the Jewish community as the center of gravity shifted west to the North African communities, and long-distance trading opportunities led to the establishment of trading diasporas and flourishing communities as far east as India. By the end of our period, many of the communities on the 'other' side of the Mediterranean had come into their own—while many of the Jewish communities in the Islamicate world had retreated from their high-water mark.

Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt

Author : Mark R. Cohen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400826780
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt written by Mark R. Cohen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it like to be poor in the Middle Ages? In the past, the answer to this question came only from institutions and individuals who gave relief to the less fortunate. This book, by one of the top scholars in the field, is the first comprehensive book to study poverty in a premodern Jewish community--from the viewpoint of both the poor and those who provided for them. Mark Cohen mines the richest body of documents available on the matter: the papers of the Cairo Geniza. These documents, located in the Geniza, a hidden chamber for discarded papers situated in a medieval synagogue in Old Cairo, were preserved largely unharmed for more than nine centuries due to an ancient custom in Judaism that prohibited the destruction of pages of sacred writing. Based on these papers, the book provides abundant testimony about how one large and important medieval Jewish community dealt with the constant presence of poverty in its midst. Building on S. D. Goitein's Mediterranean Society and inspired also by research on poverty and charity in medieval and early modern Europe, it provides a clear window onto the daily lives of the poor. It also illuminates private charity, a subject that has long been elusive to the medieval historian. In addition, Cohen's work functions as a detailed case study of an important phenomenon in human history. Cohen concludes that the relatively narrow gap between the poor and rich, and the precariousness of wealth in general, combined to make charity "one of the major agglutinates of Jewish associational life" during the medieval period.

“The Compassionate and Benevolent”: Jewish Ruling Elites in the Medieval Islamicate World

Author : Miriam Frenkel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110713616
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book “The Compassionate and Benevolent”: Jewish Ruling Elites in the Medieval Islamicate World written by Miriam Frenkel and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a monograph about the medieval Jewish community of the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria. Through deep analyses of contemporary historical sources, mostly documents from the Cairo Geniza, life stories, conducts and practices of private people are revealed. When put together these private biographies convey a social portrait of an elite group which ruled over the local community, but was part of a supra communal network.

Dominion Built of Praise

Author : Jonathan Decter
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812295242
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Dominion Built of Praise written by Jonathan Decter and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A constant feature of Jewish culture in the medieval Mediterranean was the dedication of panegyric texts in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, and other languages to men of several ranks: scholars, communal leaders, courtiers, merchants, patrons, and poets. Although the imagery of nature and eroticism in the preludes to these poems is often studied, the substance of what follows is generally neglected, as it is perceived to be repetitive, obsequious, and less aesthetically interesting than other types of poetry from the period. In Dominion Built of Praise, Jonathan Decter demurs. As is the case with visual portraits, panegyrics operate according to a code of cultural norms that tell us at least as much about the society that produced them as the individuals they portray. Looking at the phenomenon of panegyric in Mediterranean Jewish culture from several overlapping perspectives—social, historical, ethical, poetic, political, and theological—he finds that they offer representations of Jewish political leadership as it varied across geographic area and evolved over time. Decter focuses his analysis primarily on Jewish centers in the Islamic Mediterranean between the tenth and thirteenth centuries and also includes a chapter on Jews in the Christian Mediterranean through the fifteenth century. He examines the hundreds of panegyrics that have survived: some copied repeatedly in luxurious anthologies, others discarded haphazardly in the Cairo Geniza. According to Decter, the poems extolled conventional character traits ascribed to leaders not only diachronically within the Jewish political tradition but also synchronically within Islamic and, to a lesser extent, Christian civilization and political culture. Dominion Built of Praise reveals more than a superficial and functional parallel between Muslim and Jewish forms of statecraft and demonstrates how ideas of Islamic political legitimacy profoundly shaped the ways in which Jews conceptualized and portrayed their own leadership.

A Common Justice

Author : Uriel I. Simonsohn
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812205065
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book A Common Justice written by Uriel I. Simonsohn and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Common Justice Uriel I. Simonsohn examines the legislative response of Christian and Jewish religious elites to the problem posed by the appeal of their coreligionists to judicial authorities outside their communities. Focusing on the late seventh to early eleventh centuries in the region between Iraq in the east and present-day Tunisia in the west, Simonsohn explores the multiplicity of judicial systems that coexisted under early Islam to reveal a complex array of social obligations that connected individuals across confessional boundaries. By examining the incentives for appeal to external judicial institutions on the one hand and the response of minority confessional elites on the other, the study fundamentally alters our conception of the social history of the Near East in the early Islamic period. Contrary to the prevalent scholarly notion of a rigid social setting strictly demarcated along confessional lines, Simonsohn's comparative study of Christian and Jewish legal behavior under early Muslim rule exposes a considerable degree of fluidity across communal boundaries. This seeming disregard for religious affiliations threatened to undermine the position of traditional religious elites; in response, they acted vigorously to reinforce communal boundaries, censuring recourse to external judicial institutions and even threatening transgressors with excommunication.

The Bloomsbury Companion to Jewish Studies

Author : Dean Phillip Bell
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472513266
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Companion to Jewish Studies written by Dean Phillip Bell and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bloomsbury Companion to Jewish Studies is a comprehensive reference guide, providing an overview of Jewish Studies as it has developed as an academic sub-discipline. This volume surveys the development and current state of research in the broad field of Jewish Studies - focusing on central themes, methodologies, and varieties of source materials available. It includes 11 core essays from internationally-renowned scholars and teachers that provide an important and useful overview of Jewish history and the development of Judaism, while exploring central issues in Jewish Studies that cut across historical periods and offer important opportunities to track significant themes throughout the diversity of Jewish experiences. In addition to a bibliography to help orient students and researchers, the volume includes a series of indispensable research tools, including a chronology, maps, and a glossary of key terms and concepts. This is the essential reference guide for anyone working in or exploring the rich and dynamic field of Jewish Studies.

The Jewish Polity

Author : Daniel Judah Elazar
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253331564
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Polity written by Daniel Judah Elazar and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Jews

Author : John Efron
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351017853
Total Pages : 1239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Jews written by John Efron and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 1239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jews: A History is a comprehensive and accessible text that explores the religious, cultural, social, and economic diversity of the Jewish people and their faith. Placing Jewish history within its wider cultural context, the book covers a broad time span, stretching from ancient Israel to the modern day. It examines Jewish history across a range of settings, including the ancient Near East, the age of Greek and Roman rule, the medieval realms of Christianity and Islam, modern Europe, including the World Wars and the Holocaust, and contemporary America and Israel, covering a variety of topics, such as legal emancipation, acculturation, and religious innovation. The third edition is fully updated to include more case studies and to encompass recent events in Jewish history, as well as religion, social life, economics, culture, and gender. Supported by case studies, online references, further reading, maps, and illustrations, The Jews: A History provides students with a comprehensive and wide-ranging grounding in Jewish history.