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Heresy and the politics of community : the Jews of the Fatimid caliphate / Marina Rustow.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks BM185 .R86 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rustow, Marina.
- Series:
- Conjunctions of religion & power in the medieval past
- Conjunctions of religion and power in the medieval past
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Karaites--Egypt--History--To 1500.
- Karaites.
- Karaites--Syria--History--To 1500.
- Jews--Egypt--History--To 1500.
- Jews.
- Jews--Syria--History--To 1500.
- Jewish heresies--History--To 1500.
- Jewish heresies.
- History.
- Egypt--History--640-1250.
- Egypt.
- Syria--History--750-1260.
- Syria.
- Physical Description:
- xxxv, 435 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-415) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780801445828
- 0801445825
- OCLC:
- 181602161
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