{"product_id":"jews-christians-and-muslims-in-medieval-and-early-modern-times-a-festschrift-in-honor-of-mark-r-cohen-9789004257337","title":"Jews, Christians and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern Times: A Festschrift in Honor of Mark R. Cohen","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210640974167,"sku":"9789004257337","price":169.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jews-christians-and-muslims-in-medieval-and-early-modern-times-a-festschrift-in-honor-of-mark-r-cohen-9789004257337","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}