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The Lost Archive : Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue
The lost archive of the Fatimid caliphate (909-1171) survived in an unexpected place: the storage room, or geniza, of a synagogue in Cairo, recycled as scrap paper and deposited there by medieval Jews. Marina Rustow tells the story of this extraordinary find, inviting us to reconsider the longstandi...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Technical Note
- Introduction: Middle East History's Archive Problem
- I. Source Survival
- 1. The Geniza: Blind Spots and Cataclysms
- 2. The Storage Capacity of State Power
- 3. The Corpus: Its Shape and Coherence
- II. Chancery Practice
- 4. Paper: The Search for a Sustainable Support
- 5. Layout: Early Arabic Chancery Norms
- 6. Script: The Impact of the Abbasid East
- 7. Imperial Norms: The Abbasid Chancery
- 8. The Fatimid Petition-and- Response Procedure
- III. The Ecology of the Documents
- 9. Supply: A Proliferation of Decrees
- 10. Administrative Manuals and Nonmanuals
- 11. The Source: The Chancery
- 12. Copying, Storage, and Dissemination
- 13. The Probative Value of Documents: Archiving and Registration
- Appendix to Chapter 13: Fatimid ʿAlāʼim and Registration Marks
- IV. The Problem of Archives
- 14. The Rotulus as an Instrument of Performance
- 15. The Ontological Status of the Decree
- 16. Archives, Documents, and the Persistence of "Despotism"
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Index of Manuscripts with Shelfmarks
- Photo Credits and Permissions