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Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period
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ISBN: 9789004435391 9004435395 9789004435407 9004435409 Year: 2021 Publisher: Leiden;Boston BRILL

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In Israel in Egypt scholars in different fields explore what can be known of the experiences of the many and varied Jewish communities in Egypt, from biblical sources to the medieval world. For generations of Jews from antiquity to the medieval period, the land of Egypt represented both a place of danger to their communal religious identity and also a haven with opportunities for prosperity and growth. A volume of collected essays from scholars in fields ranging from biblical studies and classics to papyrology and archaeology, Israel in Egypt explores what can be known of the experiences of the many and varied Jewish communities in Egypt, from biblical sources to the medieval world.


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Judaism, Sufism, and the pietists of medieval Egypt : a study of Abraham Maimonides and his times
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ISBN: 9780198728764 019872876X Year: 2015 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Oxford university press,

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Addresses the rise and inner life of the Egyptian pietist movement in the first half of the thirteenth century, calling attention to the Sufi subtext of Jewish pietism without reducing its spiritual synthesis and religious renewal to a set of political calculations.-- Judaism, Sufism, and the Pietists of Medieval Egypt' addresses the extraordinary rise and inner life of the Egyptian pietist movement in the first half of the thirteenth century. The creative engagement with the dominant Islamic culture was always present, even when unspoken. Dr Russ-Fishbane calls attention to the Sufi subtext of Jewish pietiem, while striving not to reduce its spiritual synthesis and religious renewal to a set of political calculations. Ultimately, no single term or concept can fully address the creative expression of pietism that so animated Jewish society and that left its mark in numerous manuscripts and fragments from medieval Egypt. Russ-Fishbane offers a nuanced examination of the pietist sources on their own terms, drawing as far as possible upon their own definitions and perceptions. Jewish society in thirteenth-century Egypt reflects the dynamic reexamination by a venerable community of its foundational texts and traditions, even of its very identity and institutions, viewed and reviewed in the full light of its Islamic environment. The historical legacy of this religious synthesis belongs at once to the realm of Jewish culture, in all its diversity and dynamism, as well as to the broader spiritual orbit of Islamicate civilization.--

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Judaism --- Jews --- Islam --- History --- Intellectual life --- Relations --- Maimonides, Moses, --- Pietists --- Sufism --- 296*83 --- 291.16 <620> --- 296 <620> --- 297*2 --- 297*2 Soefisme --- Soefisme --- 296 <620> Judaisme--Egypte --- 296 <620> Judaïsme. Jodendom--Egypte --- Judaisme--Egypte --- Judaïsme. Jodendom--Egypte --- 291.16 <620> Verhouding tussen de godsdiensten. Verdraagzaamheid. Interreligieuze dialoog--Egypte --- Verhouding tussen de godsdiensten. Verdraagzaamheid. Interreligieuze dialoog--Egypte --- 296*83 Relatie jodendom: islam --- Relatie jodendom: islam --- Sofism --- Mysticism --- Protestants --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Semites --- Religion --- Abraham ben Moses ben Maimon, --- Maïmonide, Moïse, --- Májmúni, Móse, --- Maimonides, --- Maimonid, --- Rambam, --- Mûsâ Maimûnî, --- Maimûnî, Mûsâ, --- Ibn Maymūn, Mūsá, --- Mosche ben Maimun, --- Maimonide, Mosè, --- Moses ben Maimon, --- Mosheh ben Maimon, --- Maymūn, Mūsá ibn, --- Maimon, Moses ben, --- Maimon, Mosheh ben, --- Mūsá ibn Maimūn, --- Maimun, Mosche ben, --- Moshe ben Maimon, --- Maimon, Moshe ben, --- Mosheh bar Maimon, --- Maimon, Mosheh bar, --- Mose ben Maimon, --- Maimon, Mose ben, --- Qurṭubī, Mūsá ibn Maymūn, --- Andalusī, Mūsá ibn Maymūn, --- Ram, --- Ram Bam, --- Mozes ben Maimon, --- Maimonides, Mozes, --- Maimoides, --- Mosheh, --- Maimoni, Mosheh, --- א. חיים --- בן מיימון, משה, --- בן מימון, משה --- בן מימון, משה, --- בן־מיימון, משה --- הרמב״ם --- הרמב״ם, --- יונה מגירונדי --- כ״ץ, אלי --- מושה בן מיימון, --- מיימון --- מיימון, משה --- מיימון, משה בר, --- מיימון, משה, --- מיימון, צשה בן --- מיימוני --- מיימוני, משה --- מימון, גד --- מימון, משה --- מימון, משה בן, --- מימון, משה, --- מימונידס, משה --- ממימון, משה --- משה בו מימון --- משה בון מימון, --- משה במן מימון --- משה בן מיימון --- משה בן מיימון, רמב״ם, 1135־1204 --- משה בן מיימון, רמב״ם, --- משה בן מיימון, --- משה בן מימון --- משה בן מימון־־משנה תורה־־הלכות תשובה־־פירושים --- משה בן מימון, --- משה בן מימון--משנה תורה--הלכות דעות--פירושים --- משה בן מימון.משנה תורה --- משה בן מימון.משנה תורה־־באורים --- משה בן מימין, --- משה בן מימן --- משה בן מימן, --- משה בר מיימון --- משה בר מיימון, --- משה בר מימון --- משה בר מימון, --- משה בר מײמון רמב״ם, --- משה ברבי מיימון --- משה נן מיימוני, --- משה נן מימון --- משה קן מימון, --- משה, המיימוני --- פרנקל, שבתי, --- רבמ״ם --- רבנו משה בן מיימון, --- רמב"ם --- רמב״ם, --- ר״מ --- ابن ميمون، موسى --- ابن ميمون، موسى، --- Abulmeni, --- Maimuni, Abraham, --- Maimoni, Abraham, --- Maimon, Abraham ben Moses, --- Maimonides, Abraham, --- Abraham ben ha-Rambam, --- Avraham ben Mosheh ben Maimon, --- אברהם בן הרמב״ם --- אברהם בן הרמב״ם, --- אברהם בן משה בן מיימון --- אברהם בן משה בן מימון --- אברהם בן משה בן מימון, --- אברהם בן משה מימון --- אברהם בן משה, --- Maimuni, Avraham, --- Avraham ben ha-Rambam, --- Abraham ben Moses ben Maimum, --- Judaism - Egypt - History - Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789 --- Jews - Intellectual life --- Islam - Relations - Judaism --- Maimonides, Moses, - 1135-1204

The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages : An Anthology of Documents from the Cairo Geniza
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ISBN: 1400850614 9781400850617 0691092621 9780691092621 0691092710 9780691092713 1306149991 Year: 2013 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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They are voices that have been silent for centuries: those of captives and refugees, widows and orphans, the blind and infirm, and the underclass of the "working poor." Now, for the first time, the voices of the poor in the Middle Ages come to life in this moving book by historian Mark Cohen. A companion to Cohen's other volume, Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt, the book presents more than ninety letters, alms lists, donor lists, and other related documents from the Geniza, a hidden chamber for discarded papers, situated inside a wall in a Cairo synagogue. Cohen has translated these documents, providing the historical context for each. In the past, most of what we knew of the poor in the Middle Ages came from records and observations compiled by their literate social superiors, from tax collectors to the inquisitor's clerk, from criminal judges to the benefactors of the helpless, from makers of Islamic waqf deeds to authors of Arabic chronicles, and in Judaism, from Rabbis who wrote responsa to compilers of Jewish-law codes. What distinguishes this book is that it contains the voices of the poor themselves, found in documents heretofore largely ignored. Because an ancient custom in Judaism prohibited the destruction of pages of sacred writing, the documents were preserved, largely unharmed, for as many as nine centuries. The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages provides access to the attitudes and philanthropic activities of the charitable, alongside the dramatic writings of the poor themselves, whether penned in their own hands or dictated to a scribe or family member. The book also allows a rare glimpse into the women of the Middle Ages, as well as into the world of private charity--an area long elusive to the medieval historian. For researchers and students alike, this book will be an invaluable social history source for years to come.

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