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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.

Publication Info. Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, 2014.
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (441 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Christians and Jews in Muslim Societies, 2212-5523 ; Volume 2
Christians and Jews in Muslim societies ; Volume 2.
Note Electronic version available.
Restrictions on access to electronic version: access available to SOAS staff and students only, using SOAS id and password.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Bibliography of Works by Mark R. Cohen; Part One Community; How Mediterranean Was Goitein's Mediterranean Society?; Ashābunā l-tujjār-Our Associates, the Merchants: Non-Jewish Business Partners of the Cairo Geniza's India Traders; Pilgrimage and Charity in the Geniza Society; Poor Relief in Ottoman Jewish Communities; "What Sort of Sermon is This?" Leadership, Resistance, and Gender in a Communal Conflict; Why Did Medieval Northern French Jewry (Sarfat) Disappear?; Part Two Conversion.
Are Gaonic Responsa a Reliable Source for the Study of Jewish Conversion to Islam? A Comparative Analysis of Legal SourcesWhat's in a Name? 'Abdallāh b. Ishāq b. al-Shanā'a al-Muslimānī l-Isrā'īlī and Conversion to Islam in Medieval Cordoba; Jews among the Grandees of Ottoman Egypt; Remembrance and Oblivion of Religious Persecutions: On Sanctifying the Name of God (Qiddush ha-Shem) in Christian and Islamic Countries during the Middle Ages; Part Three Law and Society; The Muhammadan Stipulations: Dhimmī Versions of the Pact of 'Umar.
Jews in Sharī'a Courts: A Family Dispute from the Cairo GenizaPerception of Piracy in Islamic Sharī'a; Jew and Serf in Medieval France Revisited; Cleanliness and Convivencia: Jewish Bathing Culture in Medieval Spain; Part Four Letter Writing and Diplomatics; Friendship and Hierarchy: Rhetorical Stances in Geniza Mercantile Letters; More than Words on a Page: Letters as Substitutes for an Absent Writer; The Diplomatics of Leadership: Administrative Documents in Hebrew Script from the Geniza; Financial Troubles: A Mamluk Petition; Part Five Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic Literature.
"Az mi-lifnei vereishit": The Suffering Messiah in the Seventh CenturyA Panegyric Qasīda by Yehuda ha-Levi, Its Antecedent by Shelomo Ibn Gabirol, and Its Afterlife; Hebrew Vestiges in Sa'adya's Tafsīr; Epilogue; Index.
Summary 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.
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Subject Religions -- History.
Religions.
History.
Abrahamic religions -- History.
Abrahamic religions.
Religions -- Relations.
Religions -- Relations.
Abrahamic religions -- Relations.
Relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Cohen, Mark R., 1943- honouree.
Franklin, Arnold E. (Arnold Efrem), 1971- editor.
Udovitch, A. L., author of introduction, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in medieval and early modern times : a festschrift in honor of Mark R. Cohen. Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, ©2014 xix, 419 pages Christians and Jews in Muslim societies ; Volume 2 2212-5523 9789004257337
ISBN 9789004267848 (e-book)
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9789004257337
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