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Feminism --- Muslim women --- Islamic renewal --- Women in Islam. --- Féminisme --- Musulmanes --- Renouveau islamique --- Femmes dans l'Islam --- Religious aspects --- Islam. --- Aspect religieux --- Islam --- Women in Islam --- Gender identity --- Religious life --- Féminisme --- Feminism - Islamic countries --- Muslim women - Egypt - Cairo - Religious life - Case studies --- Islamic renewal - Egypt - Cairo - Case studies --- Feminism - Religious aspects - Islam --- Gender identity - Islamic countries --- Muslim women - Religious life - Egypt - Cairo - Case studies

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Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt examines the link between cosmopolitanism in Egypt, from the nineteenth century through to the mid-twentieth century, and colonialism. While it has been widely noted that such a relationship exists, the nature and impact of this dynamic is often overlooked. Taking a theoretical, literary and historical approach, the author argues that the notion of the cosmopolitan is inseparable from, and indebted to, its foundation in empire.Since the late 1970s a number of artistic works have appeared that represent the diversity of ethnic, national, and rel

Egypt --- Cairo (Egypt) --- Alexandria (Egypt) --- Kairo (Egypt) --- Kair (Egypt) --- Qāhirah (Egypt) --- Kahirah (Egypt) --- Caire (Egypt) --- Le Caire (Egypt) --- Ḳahir (Egypt) --- القاهرة (Egypt) --- al-Qāhirah (Egypt) --- القاهرة (مصر) --- al-Qāhirah (Miṣr) --- قاهرة (Egypt) --- O Caire (Egypt) --- Lo Cayiro (Egypt) --- Lo Quèro (Egypt) --- Каир (Egypt) --- Qahirä (Egypt) --- Горад Каір (Egypt) --- Horad Kair (Egypt) --- Каір (Egypt) --- Кайро (Egypt) --- El Caire (Egypt) --- Káhira (Egypt) --- Κάιρο (Egypt) --- El Cairo (Egypt) --- El Cairu (Egypt) --- Keiro (Egypt) --- Caireo (Egypt) --- O Cairo (Egypt) --- 카이로 (Egypt) --- Il Cairo (Egypt) --- קהיר (Egypt) --- Civilization --- Western influences.

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What was it like to be poor in the Middle Ages? In the past, the answer to this question came only from institutions and individuals who gave relief to the less fortunate. This book, by one of the top scholars in the field, is the first comprehensive book to study poverty in a premodern Jewish community--from the viewpoint of both the poor and those who provided for them. Mark Cohen mines the richest body of documents available on the matter: the papers of the Cairo Geniza. These documents, located in the Geniza, a hidden chamber for discarded papers situated in a medieval synagogue in Old Cairo, were preserved largely unharmed for more than nine centuries due to an ancient custom in Judaism that prohibited the destruction of pages of sacred writing. Based on these papers, the book provides abundant testimony about how one large and important medieval Jewish community dealt with the constant presence of poverty in its midst. Building on S. D. Goitein's Mediterranean Society and inspired also by research on poverty and charity in medieval and early modern Europe, it provides a clear window onto the daily lives of the poor. It also illuminates private charity, a subject that has long been elusive to the medieval historian. In addition, Cohen's work functions as a detailed case study of an important phenomenon in human history. Cohen concludes that the relatively narrow gap between the poor and rich, and the precariousness of wealth in general, combined to make charity "one of the major agglutinates of Jewish associational life" during the medieval period.

Jews --- Poverty --- Judaism --- Poor --- Islam --- Cairo Genizah. --- Charities --- History. --- Religious aspects --- Judaism. --- Social conditions. --- Relations --- Islam. --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Destitution --- Economic conditions --- Religion --- Genizah --- Manuscripts, Hebrew --- Persons --- Social classes --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Religions --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Subsistence economy --- Cairo Genizah --- Charities&delete& --- History --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Social conditions --- Relations&delete& --- E-books --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Muslims

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This volume of the Documentary History of the Jews in Italy is the seventh of the second series, illustrating the history of the Jews in Sicily based on notarial and court records. It is the sequel to the eight volumes of the first series. Notarial deeds drawn up by public notaries in Palermo and elsewhere and cases brought before the Pretorian Court in Palermo present a kaleidoscopic picture of the private lives of the Jews of Sicily during the last three centuries of their presence on the island. They illustrate the economic, social and religious history of the Jewish minority and the relations with the Christian majority. Much information is provided on trade and commerce, crafts and professions, religious and family life. Some light is thrown also on the internal life of the communities, particularly the larger ones, including organization and institutions, the synagogue, education, customs and traditions. Although the surviving legal deeds present only a fraction of the total drawn up in those years, they are copious and abundant. Over 30,000 documents of this group were selected for publication, most appearing here for the first time. While some documents are discussed at length, the majority are only presented in summary form. The volume is provided with additional bibliography and indexes, while the introduction will appear at the end of the series. "Simonshon’s last volume confirms once again the importance of his documentary series for students of Italian, Sicilian and Jewish matters, from late antiquity to early modern times. The coherence of both modes of collection and organization of materials, together with copious amount of data and suggestions for further study, continue to spoil scholars and researches who, in years, have come to immensely appreciate the convenience and richness of this comprehensive collection." Lucia Finotto, Brandeis University

Jews --- Cairo Genizah. --- Genizah --- Manuscripts, Hebrew --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- History --- Sicily (Italy) --- Regione siciliana (Italy) --- Sikelia (Italy) --- Sycylia (Italy) --- Królestwo Sycylii (Italy) --- Sicilia (Italy) --- Sicile (Italy) --- Sicilian Regional Government --- Sicily --- Ṣiqillīyah (Italy) --- Sitsilyah (Italy) --- Sicily (Italy : Territory under Allied occupation, 1943-1947) --- Naples (Kingdom) --- Ethnic relations