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Format: 1 online resource (624 p.)

ISBN: 9780691189529

Series Statement: Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World ; 63

Content: The lost archive of the Fatimid caliphate (909-1171) survived in an unexpected place: the storage room, or geniza, of a synagogue in Cairo, recycled as scrap paper and deposited there by medieval Jews. Marina Rustow tells the story of this extraordinary find, inviting us to reconsider the longstanding but mistaken consensus that before 1500 the dynasties of the Islamic Middle East produced few documents, and preserved even fewer.Beginning with government documents before the Fatimids and paper's westward spread across Asia, Rustow reveals a millennial tradition of state record keeping whose very continuities suggest the strength of Middle Eastern institutions, not their weakness. Tracing the complex routes by which Arabic documents made their way from Fatimid palace officials to Jewish scribes, the book provides a rare window onto a robust culture of documentation and archiving not only comparable to that of medieval Europe, but, in many cases, surpassing it. Above all, Rustow argues that the problem of archives in the medieval Middle East lies not with the region's administrative culture, but with our failure to understand preindustrial documentary ecology.Illustrated with stunning examples from the Cairo Geniza, this compelling book advances our understanding of documents as physical artifacts, showing how the records of the Fatimid caliphate, once recovered, deciphered, and studied, can help change our thinking about the medieval Islamicate world and about premodern polities more broadly.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Technical Note -- , Introduction: Middle East History's Archive Problem -- , I. Source Survival -- , 1. The Geniza: Blind Spots and Cataclysms -- , 2. The Storage Capacity of State Power -- , 3. The Corpus: Its Shape and Coherence -- , II. Chancery Practice -- , 4. Paper: The Search for a Sustainable Support -- , 5. Layout: Early Arabic Chancery Norms -- , 6. Script: The Impact of the Abbasid East -- , 7. Imperial Norms: The Abbasid Chancery -- , 8. The Fatimid Petition-and- Response Procedure -- , III. The Ecology of the Documents -- , 9. Supply: A Proliferation of Decrees -- , 10. Administrative Manuals and Nonmanuals -- , 11. The Source: The Chancery -- , 12. Copying, Storage, and Dissemination -- , 13. The Probative Value of Documents: Archiving and Registration -- , Appendix to Chapter 13: Fatimid ʿAlāʾim and Registration Marks -- , IV. The Problem of Archives -- , 14. The Rotulus as an Instrument of Performance -- , 15. The Ontological Status of the Decree -- , 16. Archives, Documents, and the Persistence of "Despotism" -- , Notes -- , Acknowledgments -- , Bibliography -- , Subject Index -- , Index of Manuscripts with Shelfmarks -- , Photo Credits and Permissions , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780691189529

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9780801455308

Series Statement: Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past

Content: In a book with a bold new view of medieval Jewish history, written in a style accessible to nonspecialists and students as well as to scholars in the field, Marina Rustow changes our understanding of the origins and nature of heresy itself. Scholars have long believed that the Rabbanites and Qaraites, the two major Jewish groups under Islamic rule, split decisively in the tenth century and from that time forward the minority Qaraites were deemed a heretical sect. Qaraites affirmed a right to decide matters of Jewish law free from centuries of rabbinic interpretation; the Rabbanites, in turn, claimed an unbroken chain of scholarly tradition. Rustow draws heavily on the Cairo Geniza, a repository of papers found in a Rabbanite synagogue, to show that despite the often fierce arguments between the groups, they depended on each other for political and financial support and cooperated in both public and private life. This evidence of remarkable interchange leads Rustow to the conclusion that the accusation of heresy appeared sporadically, in specific contexts, and that the history of permanent schism was the invention of polemicists on both sides. Power shifted back and forth fluidly across what later commentators, particularly those invested in the rabbinic claim to exclusive authority, deemed to have been sharply drawn boundaries. Heresy and the Politics of Community paints a portrait of a more flexible medieval Eastern Mediterranean world than has previously been imagined and demonstrates a new understanding of the historical meanings of charges of heresy against communities of faith. Historians of premodern societies will find that, in her fresh approach to medieval Jewish and Islamic culture, Rustow illuminates a major issue in the history of religions.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , List of Illustrations and Maps -- , Acknowledgments -- , Note on Transliteration, Transcription, and Citations -- , Introduction -- , Abbreviations -- , Part I: The Shape of the Jewish Community -- , 1. The Tripartite Community -- , 2. Jewish Book Culture in the Tenth Century -- , 3. The Limits of Communal Autonomy -- , Part II: Rabbanites, Qaraites, and the Politics of Leadership -- , 4. Qaraites and the Politics of Powerlessness -- , 5. “Nothing but Kindness, Benefit, and Loyalty”: Qaraites and the Ge'onim of Baghdad -- , 6. “Under the Authority of God and All Israel”: Qaraites and the Ge'onim of Jerusalem -- , 7. “Glory of the Two Parties”: Petitions to Qaraite Courtiers -- , 8. The Affair of the Ban of Excommunication in 1029 -- , Part III: Scholastic Loyalty and Its Limits -- , 9. Rabbanite-Qaraite Marriages -- , 10. In the Courts: Legal Reciprocity -- , Part IV: The Origins of Territorial Governance -- , 11. Avignon in Ramla: The Schism of 1038–42 -- , 12. The Tripartite Community and the First Crusade -- , Epilogue: Toward a History of Jewish Heresy -- , Glossary -- , Guide to Places and People -- , Manuscript Sources -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

DOI: 10.7591/9780801455308

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (XIX, 419 Seiten) : , Illustrationen.

ISBN: 978-90-04-26784-8

Series Statement: Christians and Jews in Muslim societies volume 2

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-90-04-25733-7

Language: English

Subjects: Theology

Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Religion ; 1943- Cohen, Mark R. ; Festschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Bibliografie ; Festschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Bibliografie

DOI: 10.1163/9789004267848

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Author information: Cohen, Mark R. 1943-

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 598 Seiten) : , Illustrationen, Karten.

ISBN: 978-0-691-18952-9

Series Statement: Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World

Content: The lost archive of the Fatimid caliphate (909-1171) survived in an unexpected place: the storage room, or geniza, of a synagogue in Cairo, recycled as scrap paper and deposited there by medieval Jews. Marina Rustow tells the story of this extraordinary find, inviting us to reconsider the longstanding but mistaken consensus that before 1500 the dynasties of the Islamic Middle East produced few documents, and preserved even fewer.Beginning with government documents before the Fatimids and paper's westward spread across Asia, Rustow reveals a millennial tradition of state record keeping whose very continuities suggest the strength of Middle Eastern institutions, not their weakness. Tracing the complex routes by which Arabic documents made their way from Fatimid palace officials to Jewish scribes, the book provides a rare window onto a robust culture of documentation and archiving not only comparable to that of medieval Europe, but, in many cases, surpassing it. Above all, Rustow argues that the problem of archives in the medieval Middle East lies not with the region's administrative culture, but with our failure to understand preindustrial documentary ecology.Illustrated with stunning examples from the Cairo Geniza, this compelling book advances our understanding of documents as physical artifacts, showing how the records of the Fatimid caliphate, once recovered, deciphered, and studied, can help change our thinking about the medieval Islamicate world and about premodern polities more broadly

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-0-691-15647-7

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: Genisa ; Quelle

DOI: 10.1515/9780691189529

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Format: x, 431 p. : , ill.

Edition: 1st ed.

Edition: Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Series Statement: Jewish culture and contexts

Note: A collection of essays written by scholars invited to the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in 2003-2004. , Anthropology, history, and the remaking of Jewish studies / Ra'anan S. Boustan, Oren Kosansky, and Marina Rustow -- "How do you know that I am a Jew?" : authority, cultural identity, and the shaping of postwar American Judaism / Riv-Ellen Prell -- Rabbis and their (in)famous magic : classical foundations, medieval and early modern reverberations / J. H. Chajes -- Dreamers in paradise : the rise and fall of a new holy site in Beit She'an, Israel / Yoram Bilu -- Words, images, and magic : the protection of the bride and bridegroom in Jewish marriage contracts / Shalom Sabar -- The dislocation of the temple vessels : mobile sanctity and rabbinic rhetorics of space / Ra'anan S. Boustan -- Sacred space, local history, and diasporic identity : the graves of the righteous in medieval and early modern Ashkenaz / Lucia Raspe -- Detours in a "hidden land" : Samuel Romanelli's Masa' ba'rav / Andrea Schatz -- The rhetoric of rescue : "salvage immigration" narratives in Israeli culture / Tamar Katriel -- Judaism and tradition : continuity, change, and innovation / Albert I. Baumgarten and Marina Rustow -- In the path of our fathers : on tradition and time from Jerusalem to Babylonia and beyond / Sylvie Anne Goldberg -- Prayer, literacy, and literary memory in the Jewish communities of medieval Europe / Ephraim Kanarfogel -- A temple in your kitchen : hafrashat @hallah-the rebirth of a forgotten ritual as a public ceremony / Tamar El-Or -- Judaism and the idea of ancient ritual theory / Michael D. Swartz -- Toward an integrative approach in Jewish studies : a view from anthropology / Harvey E. Goldberg.

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ISSN: 0021-6704

In: Jewish social studies, 20(2013/2014)2, S. 111-146, 0021-6704

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9780801455308

Series Statement: Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past

Content: In a book with a bold new view of medieval Jewish history, written in a style accessible to nonspecialists and students as well as to scholars in the field, Marina Rustow changes our understanding of the origins and nature of heresy itself. Scholars have long believed that the Rabbanites and Qaraites, the two major Jewish groups under Islamic rule, split decisively in the tenth century and from that time forward the minority Qaraites were deemed a heretical sect. Qaraites affirmed a right to decide matters of Jewish law free from centuries of rabbinic interpretation; the Rabbanites, in turn, claimed an unbroken chain of scholarly tradition. Rustow draws heavily on the Cairo Geniza, a repository of papers found in a Rabbanite synagogue, to show that despite the often fierce arguments between the groups, they depended on each other for political and financial support and cooperated in both public and private life. This evidence of remarkable interchange leads Rustow to the conclusion that the accusation of heresy appeared sporadically, in specific contexts, and that the history of permanent schism was the invention of polemicists on both sides. Power shifted back and forth fluidly across what later commentators, particularly those invested in the rabbinic claim to exclusive authority, deemed to have been sharply drawn boundaries. Heresy and the Politics of Community paints a portrait of a more flexible medieval Eastern Mediterranean world than has previously been imagined and demonstrates a new understanding of the historical meanings of charges of heresy against communities of faith. Historians of premodern societies will find that, in her fresh approach to medieval Jewish and Islamic culture, Rustow illuminates a major issue in the history of religions.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , List of Illustrations and Maps -- , Acknowledgments -- , Note on Transliteration, Transcription, and Citations -- , Introduction -- , Abbreviations -- , Part I: The Shape of the Jewish Community -- , 1. The Tripartite Community -- , 2. Jewish Book Culture in the Tenth Century -- , 3. The Limits of Communal Autonomy -- , Part II: Rabbanites, Qaraites, and the Politics of Leadership -- , 4. Qaraites and the Politics of Powerlessness -- , 5. “Nothing but Kindness, Benefit, and Loyalty”: Qaraites and the Ge'onim of Baghdad -- , 6. “Under the Authority of God and All Israel”: Qaraites and the Ge'onim of Jerusalem -- , 7. “Glory of the Two Parties”: Petitions to Qaraite Courtiers -- , 8. The Affair of the Ban of Excommunication in 1029 -- , Part III: Scholastic Loyalty and Its Limits -- , 9. Rabbanite-Qaraite Marriages -- , 10. In the Courts: Legal Reciprocity -- , Part IV: The Origins of Territorial Governance -- , 11. Avignon in Ramla: The Schism of 1038–42 -- , 12. The Tripartite Community and the First Crusade -- , Epilogue: Toward a History of Jewish Heresy -- , Glossary -- , Guide to Places and People -- , Manuscript Sources -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.7591/9780801455308

URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801455308

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (XIX, 419 Seiten) : , Illustrationen.

ISBN: 978-90-04-26784-8

Series Statement: Christians and Jews in Muslim societies volume 2

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-90-04-25733-7

Language: English

Subjects: Theology

Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Religion ; 1943- Cohen, Mark R. ; Festschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Bibliografie

DOI: 10.1163/9789004267848

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Author information: Cohen, Mark R. 1943-

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Format: xxxv, 435 p , ill., maps , 25 cm

ISBN: 9780801445828 , 0801445825 , 9780801456503

Series Statement: Conjunctions of religion and power in the medieval past

Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-415) and index , The tripartite community -- Jewish book culture in the tenth century -- The limits of communal autonomy -- Qaraites and the politics of powerlessness -- "Nothing but kindness, benefit, and loyalty" : Qaraites and the ge'onim of Baghdad -- "Under the authority of God and all Israel" : Qaraites and the ge'onim of Jerusalem -- "Glory of the two parties" : petitions to Qaraite courtiers -- The affair of the ban of excommunication in 1029 -- Rabbanite-Qaraite marriages -- In the courts : legal reciprocity -- Avignon in Ramla : the schism of 1038-42 -- The tripartite community and the First Crusade -- Epilogue : toward a history of Jewish heresy.

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Rustow, Marina Heresy and the Politics of Community Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2014 ISBN 9780801455308

Language: English

Subjects: History , Theology

Keywords: Fatimidenreich ; Juden ; Geschichte 969-1171 ; Levante ; Karäer ; Glaubensspaltung ; Gemeinschaft ; Rabbinismus ; Geschichte 969-1171 ; Ägypten ; Judentum ; Häresie ; Geschichte 909-1171 ; Ägypten ; Karäer ; Geschichte 909-1171

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Format: XXI, 576 Seiten , Illustrationen , 25 cm

ISBN: 9789004388666 , 9004388664

Series Statement: Time, astronomy, and calendars volume 7

Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 539-547

Additional Edition: ISBN 9789004388673

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Stern, Sacha, 1962 - The Jewish calendar controversy of 921/2 CE Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2019 ISBN 9789004388673

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Stern, Sacha, 1962 - The Jewish calendar controversy of 921/2 CE Boston : BRILL, 2019 ISBN 9789004388673

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Stern, Sacha, 1962 - The Jewish calendar controversy of 921/2 CE Leiden : Brill, 2019 ISBN 9789004388673

Language: English

Subjects: History , Theology

Keywords: Naher Osten ; Judentum ; Kalenderreform ; Rabbinismus ; Kontroverse ; Geschichte 921-922

Author information: Stern, Sacha 1962-