Jews, Christians, and Muslims in medieval and early modern times : a festschrift in honor of Mark R. Cohen
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Jews, Christians, and Muslims in medieval and early modern times : a festschrift in honor of Mark R. Cohen
(Christians and Jews in Muslim societies, v. 2)
Brill, 2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Contents
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface
Avrom Udovitch
Introduction
Arnold E. Franklin, Roxani Eleni Margariti, Marina Rustow and Uriel Simonsohn
The Bibliography of Mark R. Cohen
I. Community
How Mediterranean Was Goitein's Mediterranean Society?
Norman A. Stillman
Ashabuna al-tujjar-Our Associates, the Merchants: Non-Jewish Business Partners of the Cairo Geniza's India Traders
Roxani Eleni Margariti
Pilgrimage and Charity in the Geniza Society
Miriam Frenkel
Poor Relief in Ottoman Jewish Communities
Yaron Ayalon
"What Sort of Sermon is This?": Leadership, Resistance and Gender in a Communal Conflict
Oded Zinger
Why Did Medieval Northern French Jewry (Sarfat) Disappear?
Ivan G. Marcus
II. Conversion
Are Geonic Responsa a Reliable Source for the Study of Jewish Conversion to Islam? A Comparative Analysis of Legal Sources
Uriel Simonsohn
What's in a Name? 'Abd Allah b. Ishaq ibn al-Shana'a al-Muslimani al-Isra'ili and Conversion to Islam in Medieval Cordoba
David J. Wasserstein
Jews among the Grandees of Ottoman Egypt
Jane Hathaway
Remembrance and Oblivion of Religious Persecutions: On Sanctifying the Name of God (Qiddush ha-Shem) in Christian and Islamic Countries during the Middle Ages
Menahem Ben-Sasson
III. Law and Society
The Muhammadan Stipulations: Dhimmi Versions of the Pact of 'Umar
Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman
Jews in Shari'a Courts: A Family Dispute from the Cairo Geniza
Jessica M. Marglin
Perception of Piracy in Islamic Shari'a
Hassan S. Khalilieh
Jew and Serf in Medieval France Revisited
William Chester Jordan
Cleanliness and Convivencia: Jewish Bathing Culture in Medieval Spain
Olivia Remie Constable
IV. Letter Writing and Diplomatics
Friendship and Hierarchy: Rhetorical Stances in Geniza Mercantile Letters
Jessica L. Goldberg
More than Words on a Page: Letters as Substitutes for an Absent Writer
Arnold E. Franklin
The Diplomatics of Leadership: Administrative Documents in Hebrew Script from the Geniza
Marina Rustow
Financial Troubles: A Mamluk Petition
Petra M. Sijpesteijn
V. Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic Literature
"'Az milifnei vereishit": The Suffering Messiah in the Seventh Century
Martha Himmelfarb
A Panegyric Qasida by Judah Halevi, Its Antecedent by Solomon Ibn Gabirol, and Its Afterlife
Raymond P. Scheindlin
Hebrew Vestiges in Sa'adya's Tafsir
Sasson Somekh
Epilogue
Natalie Zemon Davis
Index
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