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Heresy and the politics of community : the Jews of the Fatimid caliphate
- Title
- Heresy and the politics of community : the Jews of the Fatimid caliphate / Marina Rustow.
- Author
- Rustow, Marina.
- Publication
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
- Supplementary Content
- Table of contents
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- Description
- xxxv, 435 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Rustow changes our understanding of the origins and nature of heresy itself. In this book she draws on the Cairo Geniza to show that despite the often fierce arguments between the Jewish groups, they depend on each other for political and financial support and cooperate in both public and private life.
- Series Statement
- Conjunctions of religion and power in the medieval past
- Uniform Title
- Conjunctions of religion & power in the medieval past.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-415) and index.
- Contents
- The tripartite community -- Jewish book culture in the tenth century -- The limits of communal autonomy -- Qaraites and the politics of powerlessness -- "Nothing but kindness, benefit, and loyalty" : Qaraites and the ge'onim of Baghdad -- "Under the authority of God and all Israel" : Qaraites and the ge'onim of Jerusalem -- "Glory of the two parties" : petitions to Qaraite courtiers -- The affair of the ban of excommunication in 1029 -- Rabbanite-Qaraite marriages -- In the courts : legal reciprocity -- Avignon in Ramla : the schism of 1038-42 -- The tripartite community and the First Crusade -- Epilogue : toward a history of Jewish heresy.
- Call Number
- *PXI 14-39
- ISBN
- 9780801445828 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0801445825 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1572268905
- 9781572268906
- 40015722689 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2008002314
- 40015722689
- OCLC
- 181602161
- Author
- Rustow, Marina.
- Title
- Heresy and the politics of community : the Jews of the Fatimid caliphate / Marina Rustow.
- Imprint
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
- Series
- Conjunctions of religion and power in the medieval pastConjunctions of religion & power in the medieval past.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-415) and index.
- Connect to:
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40015722689
- Research Call Number
- *PXI 14-39