{"product_id":"maimonides-and-the-merchants-9780812249149","title":"Maimonides and the Merchants","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe advent of Islam in the seventh century brought profound economic changes to the Jews living in the Middle East, and Talmudic law, compiled in and for an agrarian society, was ill equipped to address an increasingly mercantile world. In response, and over the course of the seventh through eleventh centuries, the heads of the Jewish yeshivot of Iraq sought precedence in custom to adapt Jewish law to the new economic and social reality.\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMaimonides and the Merchants\u003c\/i\u003e, Mark R. Cohen reveals the extent of even further pragmatic revisions to the halakha, or body of Jewish law, introduced by Moses Maimonides in his Mishneh Torah, the comprehensive legal code he compiled in the late twelfth century. While Maimonides insisted that he was merely restating already established legal practice, Cohen uncovers the extensive reformulations that further inscribed commerce into Jewish law. Maimonides revised Talmudic partnership regulations, created a judicial method to enable Jewish\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMaimonides and the Merchants\u003c\/i\u003e opens a new window onto Maimonides' unprecedentedly systematic and comprehensive code of law. Cohen's exceptionally clear and cogent readings of \u003ci\u003eMishneh Torah,\u003c\/i\u003e balanced against previous rabbinic legal writings on the one hand and Geniza evidence on the other, successfully establish \u003ci\u003eMishneh Torah\u003c\/i\u003e as a social-political endeavor addressed to a real-life audience.\" * \u003ci\u003eIslamic Law and Society\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes and Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Codification and Legal Change\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Halakha and the Custom of the Merchants\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Updating the Halakha\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Partnership\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Commercial Agency (\u003ci\u003eSuhba\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. \u003ci\u003eSuhba\u003c\/i\u003e-Agency in the Code\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Proxy Legal Agency\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Sale and Contract\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Judicial Autonomy\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Legal Change and Originality\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405730128215,"sku":"9780812249149","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812249149.jpg?v=1730493427","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/maimonides-and-the-merchants-9780812249149","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}