[PDF.48jy] Heresy and the Politics of Community: The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past)

Heresy and the Politics of Community: The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past)

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 | #2980184 in Books |  Cornell University Press |  2008-07-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  10.00 x1.00 x7.01l,1.96 | File type: PDF | 472 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A study of Jewish gossip of the middle ages.|By Kindle Customer|Marina Rustow writes on her subject with considerable amount of Jewish wit (one may even call it Jewish sarcasm). Her excerpt on how Yūsuf al-Sijilmāsī, the head of the Iraqi community of Ramla, foresaw the earthquake of 1033 in a dream is hilarious. In this event one can see parallels with the story of how Umar| || "The Cairo Geniza documents have been at the center of Jewish scholarship for over a century. Rustow has reviewed the medieval and modern models that emerged on the basis of the rich polemical literature and challenges them against the extant contemporary c

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. Qara...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Heresy and the Politics of Community: The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past)   |  Marina Rustow. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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