TY - BOOK ID - 77899380 TI - The business of identity PY - 2014 SN - 0804787166 9780804787161 9780804785471 0804785473 PB - Stanford, California DB - UniCat KW - Jewish merchants KW - Partnership (Jewish law) KW - Commercial law (Jewish law) KW - Jews KW - Cairo Genizah. KW - Genizah KW - Manuscripts, Hebrew KW - Hebrews KW - Israelites KW - Jewish people KW - Jewry KW - Judaic people KW - Judaists KW - Ethnology KW - Religious adherents KW - Semites KW - Judaism KW - Jewish law KW - Merchants, Jewish KW - Merchants KW - History KW - Identity KW - Egypt KW - Égypte KW - Ägypten KW - Egitto KW - Egipet KW - Egiptos KW - Miṣr KW - Southern Region (United Arab Republic) KW - Egyptian Region (United Arab Republic) KW - Iqlīm al-Janūbī (United Arab Republic) KW - Egyptian Territory (United Arab Republic) KW - Egipat KW - Arab Republic of Egypt KW - A.R.E. KW - ARE (Arab Republic of Egypt) KW - Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah KW - Mitsrayim KW - Egipt KW - Ijiptʻŭ KW - Misri KW - Ancient Egypt KW - Gouvernement royal égyptien KW - جمهورية مصر العربية KW - مِصر‎ KW - مَصر‎ KW - Maṣr KW - Khēmi KW - エジプト KW - Ejiputo KW - Egypti KW - Egypten KW - מצרים KW - United Arab Republic KW - Commerce KW - Economic conditions UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77899380 AB - 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 ER -