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Jewish Travellers In The Middle Ages 19 First Hand Accounts
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Book Synopsis Jewish Travellers in the Middle Ages by : Elkan Nathan Adler
Download or read book Jewish Travellers in the Middle Ages written by Elkan Nathan Adler and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich in human experience and historic detail, these fascinating accounts portray the activities of Jewish scholars, merchants, pilgrims, ambassadors, and other wanderers. Nineteen engaging narratives, some of them 12 centuries old, offer rare perspectives on the unfolding drama of life in medieval Europe, the Near East, and Africa.
Book Synopsis Jewish travellers in the Middle Ages : 19 first-hand accounts by : Elkan Nathan Adler
Download or read book Jewish travellers in the Middle Ages : 19 first-hand accounts written by Elkan Nathan Adler and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Jewish Travellers (801-1755) by : Elkan Nathan Adler
Download or read book Jewish Travellers (801-1755) written by Elkan Nathan Adler and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1995 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: incl. illust. - Eginhard of Franconia ibn Khordadhbeh Judah Haleli Rabbi Petachia Rabbi Jacob Ven Rabbi R.N. Ha Cohen David Azulai and other travellers
Book Synopsis Jewish Travellers by : Elkan Nathan Adler
Download or read book Jewish Travellers written by Elkan Nathan Adler and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Jewish Travellers by : Elkan Nathan Adler
Download or read book Jewish Travellers written by Elkan Nathan Adler and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book by : Marvin J. Heller
Download or read book Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book written by Marvin J. Heller and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-06-30 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book is a collection of twenty-four essays on various aspects of Hebrew book production in the 16th-18th centuries. The subject matter encompasses little known printing-presses, makers of Hebrew books, book arts, and related subjects.
Book Synopsis The Ottoman Empire and the World Around it by : Suraiya Faroqhi
Download or read book The Ottoman Empire and the World Around it written by Suraiya Faroqhi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-12-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Islamic law the world was made up of the 'House of Islam' and the 'House of War' with the Ottoman Sultan - successor to the early Caliphs - as supreme ruler of the Islamic world. However, in this ground-breaking study of the Ottoman Empire in the early modern period, Suraiya Faroqhi demonstrates that there was no 'iron curtain' between the Ottoman and 'other' worlds but rather a long-established network of connections - diplomatic, trading and financial., cultural and religious. These extended beyond regional contacts to the empires of Asia and the burgeoning 'modern' states of Europe - England, France, the Netherlands and Venice. Of course, military conflict was a constant factor in these relationships, but the overriding reality was 'one world' and contact between cultured and pragmatic elites - even 'gentlemen travelling for pleasure' - as well as pilgrimage and close artistic contact with the European Renaissance. Faroqhi's book is based on a huge study of original and early modern sources, including diplomatic records, travel and geographical writing, as well as personal accounts. Its breadth and originality will make it essential reading for historians of Europe and the Middle East.
Book Synopsis The Jewish Travellers in the Twelfth Century by : Yosef Levanon
Download or read book The Jewish Travellers in the Twelfth Century written by Yosef Levanon and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Holy Land in the Middle Ages by : St Jerome
Download or read book The Holy Land in the Middle Ages written by St Jerome and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Presents texts by medieval Christian, Muslim and Jewish travelers, including: St. Jerome, Paula & Eustochium, Mukaddasi of Jerusalem, Naasir-i-Khusrau, Theoderich of Weurzburg and Benjamin of Tudela. Includes photos, plans, maps, views, bibliography"--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis Routledge Revivals: Trade, Travel and Exploration in the Middle Ages (2000) by : John Block Friedman
Download or read book Routledge Revivals: Trade, Travel and Exploration in the Middle Ages (2000) written by John Block Friedman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000, Trade, Travel, and Exploration: An Encyclopedia covers the people, places, technologies, and intellectual concepts that contributed to trade, travel and exploration during the Middle Ages, from the years C.E. 525 to 1492. This comprehensive reference work contains entries on a large number of subjects, including familiar topics such as the voyages of Columbus and Marco Polo, and also information that is more difficult to find, for example, the traditions of travel among Muslim women and the influence of Viking travel on navigation and geographical knowledge. Bringing together more than 175 scholars from a variety of disciplines, it minimizes Eurocentric bias and offers extensive coverage of such topics as travel within Inner Asia, Mongol society, and the spread of Buddhism. Including an extensive map program and more than 125 illustrations, as well as bibliographies, a comprehensive index and "see also" references, Medieval Trade, Travel, and Exploration is a valuable reference guide for undergraduate and graduate students, scholars and also the general reader.
Book Synopsis Sufis in Medieval Baghdad by : Atta Muhammad
Download or read book Sufis in Medieval Baghdad written by Atta Muhammad and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-19 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the political and social activities of Sufis in Baghdad in the period 1000-1258. It argues that Sufis played an important role in creating a public sphere that existed between ordinary subjects and the government. Drawing on Arabic sources and secondary literature, it explores the role of Sufis and their institutions including their ribats or lodge houses, from the use of Sufis as political ambassadors to their role in redistributing charity to the poor. The book reveals the role of Sufism in structuring a wide range of social and political arrangements in this period. It also reveals the role of ordinary, non-elite actors who, by taking part in Sufi-affiliated religious or professional associations, were able take part in public life in late-Abbasid Baghdad.
Book Synopsis Reorienting the East by : Martin Jacobs
Download or read book Reorienting the East written by Martin Jacobs and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reorienting the East explores the Islamic world as it was encountered, envisioned, and elaborated by Jewish travelers from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. The first comprehensive investigation of Jewish travel writing from this era, this study engages with questions raised by postcolonial studies and contributes to the debate over the nature and history of Orientalism as defined by Edward Said. Examining two dozen Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic travel accounts from the mid-twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries, Martin Jacobs asks whether Jewish travelers shared Western perceptions of the Islamic world with their Christian counterparts. Most Jews who detailed their journeys during this period hailed from Christian lands and many sailed to the Eastern Mediterranean aboard Christian-owned vessels. Yet Jacobs finds that their descriptions of the Near East subvert or reorient a decidedly Christian vision of the region. The accounts from the crusader era, in particular, are often critical of the Christian church and present glowing portraits of Muslim-Jewish relations. By contrast, some of the later travelers discussed in the book express condescending attitudes toward Islam, Muslims, and Near Eastern Jews. Placing shifting perspectives on the Muslim world in their historical, social, and literary contexts, Jacobs interprets these texts as mirrors of changing Jewish self-perceptions. As he argues, the travel accounts echo the various ways in which premodern Jews negotiated their mingled identities, which were neither exclusively Western nor entirely Eastern.
Book Synopsis Essays on the Making of the Early Hebrew Book by : Marvin J. Heller
Download or read book Essays on the Making of the Early Hebrew Book written by Marvin J. Heller and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles on early Hebrew printing encompassing title-page motifs and entitling books; authors and places of publication including books opposed to gambling, on philology, and the massacres of tah-ve-tat (1648-48); small diverse places of printing; and on Christian-Hebraism.
Book Synopsis The Holy Land in the Middle Ages by : Benjamin (of Tudela)
Download or read book The Holy Land in the Middle Ages written by Benjamin (of Tudela) and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Presents texts by medieval Christian, Muslim and Jewish travelers, including: St. Jerome, Paula & Eustochium, Mukaddasi of Jerusalem, Nâsir-i-Khusrau, Theoderich of Würzburg and Benjamin of Tudela. Includes photos, plans, maps, views, bibliography"--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis East Meets West in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times by : Albrecht Classen
Download or read book East Meets West in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times written by Albrecht Classen and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 827 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume explores the surprisingly intense and complex relationships between East and West during the Middle Ages and the early modern world, combining a large number of critical studies representing such diverse fields as literary (German, French, Italian, English, Spanish, and Arabic) and other subdisciplines of history, religion, anthropology, and linguistics. The differences between Islam and Christianity erected strong barriers separating two global cultures, but, as this volume indicates, despite many attempts to 'Other' the opposing side, the premodern world experienced an astonishing degree of contacts, meetings, exchanges, and influences. Scientists, travelers, authors, medical researchers, chroniclers, diplomats, and merchants criss-crossed the East and the West, or studied the sources produced by the other culture for many different reasons. As much as the theoretical concept of 'Orientalism' has been useful in sensitizing us to the fundamental tensions and conflicts separating both worlds at least since the eighteenth century, the premodern world did not quite yet operate in such an ideological framework. Even though the Crusades had violently pitted Christians against Muslims, there were countless contacts and a palpitable curiosity on both sides both before, during, and after those religious warfares.
Book Synopsis Jews and Journeys by : Joshua Levinson
Download or read book Jews and Journeys written by Joshua Levinson and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journeys of dislocation and return, of discovery and conquest hold a prominent place in the imagination of many cultures. Wherever an individual or community may be located, it would seem, there is always the dream of being elsewhere. This has been especially true throughout the ages for Jews, for whom the promises and perils of travel have influenced both their own sense of self and their identity in the eyes of others. How does travel writing, as a genre, produce representations of the world of others, against which one's own self can be invented or explored? And what happens when Jewish authors in particular—whether by force or of their own free will, whether in reality or in the imagination—travel from one place to another? How has travel figured in the formation of Jewish identity, and what cultural and ideological work is performed by texts that document or figure specifically Jewish travel? Featuring essays on topics that range from Abraham as a traveler in biblical narrative to the guest book entries at contemporary Israeli museum and memorial sites; from the marvels medieval travelers claim to have encountered to eighteenth-century Jewish critiques of Orientalism; from the Wandering Jew of legend to one mid-twentieth-century Yiddish writer's accounts of his travels through Peru, Jews and Journeys explores what it is about travel writing that enables it to become one of the central mechanisms for exploring the realities and fictions of individual and collective identity.
Book Synopsis Jewish Life in the Middle Ages by : Israel Abrahams
Download or read book Jewish Life in the Middle Ages written by Israel Abrahams and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 1993 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work of scholarship illustrates the richness, complexity, and fullness of medieval Jewish life. Readers will discover how much was hidden from the inquisitive and often hostile gaze of Christian Europe. Israel Abrahams vividly details the customs, manners, and mores, and delves into the social culture of Jewish life at this time.
