The business of identity : Jews, Muslims, and economic life in medieval Egypt / Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lieberman, Phillip I., 1970-

Series:

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish merchants--Egypt--History--To 1500.

Jewish merchants.

Partnership (Jewish law)--History--To 1500.

Partnership (Jewish law).

Commercial law (Jewish law)--History--To 1500.

Commercial law (Jewish law).

Jews--Egypt--Identity--History--To 1500.

Jews.

Cairo Genizah.

Egypt--Commerce--History--To 1500.

Egypt.

Egypt--Economic conditions--640-1517.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (688 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 id

Contents:

Jewish, Islamic, or Mediterranean? : historiography and the Cairo Geniza

Partnership as culture : Jewish law and Jewish life

Commercial forms and legal norms in the Jewish community of medieval Egypt

The Geniza, Jewish identity, and medieval Islamic social and economic history

Appendix : fifteen legal documents concerning partnership.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780804787161

0804787166

OCLC:

872703482