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After revelation : the Rabbinic past in the medieval Islamic world / Marc D. Herman.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks KBM524.36 .H47 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herman, Marc, 1983- Author.
- Series:
- Jewish culture and contexts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish law--History.
- Jewish law.
- Judaism--Islamic countries--History.
- Judaism.
- Mishpat Ivri.
- Judaism--Doctrines.
- Conservative Judaism.
- Rabbis.
- Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.
- Rabbinical literature.
- rabbis.
- Judaism--History.
- Islamic countries.
- Physical Description:
- 275 pages : map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- "This book fully integrates Jewish legal thought in the medieval Islamic world into its larger environment. Travelling from Baghdad to Cairo and bookending with accounts of medieval Jewish luminaries Saadia Gaon and Moses Maimonides, Herman underscores that medieval Judaism only took the shapes that it did through contact with Islam"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Saadia Gaon and the Birth of Rabbanism
- From Sinai to Baghdad
- Rewriting the Oral Torah in al-Andalus
- Maimonides Between the Mālikīs and the Almohads.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781512827781
- 1512827789
- OCLC:
- 1492586282
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000252996
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