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The business of identity : Jews, Muslims, and economic life in medieval Egypt /

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 ma...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lieberman, Phillip I., 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]
Colección:Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.