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Author Lieberman, Phillip I., 1970- author.

Title The business of identity : Jews, Muslims, and economic life in medieval Egypt / Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 446 pages .)
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Series Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Jewish, Islamic, or Mediterranean? : historiography and the Cairo Geniza -- Partnership as culture : Jewish law and Jewish life -- Commercial forms and legal norms in the Jewish community of medieval Egypt -- The Geniza, Jewish identity, and medieval Islamic social and economic history -- Appendix : fifteen legal documents concerning partnership.
Summary The Cairo Geniza is the largest and richest store of documentary evidence for the medieval Islamic world. This book seeks to revolutionize the way scholars use that treasure trove. Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman draws on legal documents from the Geniza to reconceive of life in the medieval Islamic marketplace. In place of the shared practices broadly understood by scholars to have transcended confessional boundaries, he reveals how Jewish merchants in Egypt employed distinctive trading practices. Highly influenced by Jewish law, these commercial practices served to manifest their Jewish id.
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Subject Jewish merchants -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500.
Jewish merchants.
Egypt.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Partnership (Jewish law) -- History -- To 1500.
Partnership (Jewish law)
Commercial law (Jewish law) -- History -- To 1500.
Commercial law (Jewish law)
Jews -- Egypt -- Identity -- History -- To 1500.
Jews.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Egypt -- Commerce -- History -- To 1500.
Commerce.
Cairo Genizah.
Cairo Genizah.
Chronological Term To 1517
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9780804785471 0804785473 (DLC) 2013021487
ISBN 0804787166 (electronic book)
9780804787161 (electronic book)
9780804785471
0804785473

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