The Cairo Geniza is the largest and richest store of documentary evidence for the medieval Islamic world. This book seeks to revolutionize the way scholars use that treasure trove. Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman draws on legal documents from the Geniza to reconceive of life in the medieval Islamic marketplace. In place of the shared practices broadly understood by scholars to have transcended confessional boundaries, he reveals how Jewish merchants in Egypt employed distinctive trading practices. Highly influenced by Jewish law, these commercial practices served to manifest their Jewish identity in the medieval Islamic context. In light of this distinctiveness, Ackerman-Lieberman proposes an alternative model for using the Geniza documents as a tool for understanding daily life in the medieval Islamic world as a whole.
| ISBN: | 9780804785471 |
| Publication date: | 15th January 2014 |
| Author: | Phillip Isaac AckermanLieberman |
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 464 pages |
| Series: | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture |
| Genres: |
Legal history Social and cultural history |
The Cairo Geniza is the largest and richest store of documentary evidence for the medieval Islamic world. This book seeks to revolutionize the way scholars use that treasure trove. Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman draws on legal documents from the Geniza to reconceive of life in the medieval Islamic marketplace. In place of the shared practices broadly understood by scholars to have transcended confessional boundaries, he reveals how Jewish merchants in Egypt employed distinctive trading practices. Highly influenced by Jewish law, these commercial practices served to manifest their Jewish identity in the medieval Islamic context. In light of this distinctiveness, Ackerman-Lieberman proposes an alternative model for using the Geniza documents as a tool for understanding daily life in the medieval Islamic world as a whole.
The Business of Identity features in the following genres: Legal history, Social and cultural history
The Business of Identity is available in Hardback
The Business of Identity was written by Phillip Isaac AckermanLieberman and published by Stanford University Press
The Business of Identity has 464 pages
Yes it is part of Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture series