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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade Review'In a period marked by an inflation of proliferating Festschriften, it is a pleasure to read a book of quality articles clearly focused on the research areas of a very worthy scholar. Mark R. Cohen, who taught for forty years at Princeton University, pursued innovative investigations of Jewish-Islamic relations in the realms of both economics and politics in light of findings from the Cairo Geniza, a Jewish repository of hundreds of thousands of medieval literary and documentary texts'. DANIEL J . LASKER, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in Renaissance Quarterly Vol. 68, No. 2 (Summer 2015), pp. 706-708
Table of ContentsContents 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 Aṣḥābunā al-tujjār—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 (Ṣarfat) 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? ʿAbd Allāh b. Isḥāq ibn al-Shanāʿa al-Muslimānī al-Isrāʾīlī 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 Muḥammadan Stipulations: Dhimmī Versions of the Pact of ʿUmar Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman Jews in Sharīʿa Courts: A Family Dispute from the Cairo Geniza Jessica M. Marglin Perception of Piracy in Islamic Sharīʿa 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 “ʾAz milifnei vereishit”: The Suffering Messiah in the Seventh Century Martha Himmelfarb A Panegyric Qaṣīda by Judah Halevi, Its Antecedent by Solomon Ibn Gabirol, and Its Afterlife Raymond P. Scheindlin Hebrew Vestiges in Saʿadya’s Tafsīr Sasson Somekh Epilogue Natalie Zemon Davis Index
