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The business of identity : Jews, Muslims, and economic life in medieval Egypt / Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman.

Title
The business of identity : Jews, Muslims, and economic life in medieval Egypt / Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman.
Author
Lieberman, Phillip I., 1970-
Publication
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.

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Description
  • xiv, 446 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
  • 446 p.
Summary
This study explores Jewish commercial partnerships in medieval Egypt, and reveals Jewish merchants to have used economic cooperation as a vehicle for cultural identity formation and maintenance. Through a detailed analysis of the legal documents of the Cairo Geniza, the book shows an affinity between Jewish law and the daily life of Jewish merchants filtered through the courts, which educated merchants about the norms of Jewish commercial law without necessarily demanding that the merchants transact their business according to those norms.
Series Statement
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Uniform Title
  • University press scholarship online.
  • Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Alternative Title
Jews, Muslims, and economic life in medieval Egypt
Subject
  • To 1517
  • Jews > Egypt > Economic life
  • Jewish merchants > Egypt > History > To 1500
  • Partnership (Jewish law) > History > To 1500
  • Commercial law (Jewish law) > History > To 1500
  • Jews > Egypt > Identity > History > To 1500
  • Cairo Genizah
  • Egypt > Commerce > History > To 1500
  • Egypt > Economic conditions > 640-1517
Genre/Form
  • History
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Jewish, Islamic, or Mediterranean? : historiography and the Cairo Geniza -- Partnership as culture : Jewish law and Jewish life -- Commercial forms and legal norms in the Jewish community of medieval Egypt -- The Geniza, Jewish identity, and medieval Islamic social and economic history -- Appendix : fifteen legal documents concerning partnership.
ISBN
  • 9780804785471 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0804785473 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2013021487
OCLC
  • 843858275
  • SCSB-11804928
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library