Jews, Christians and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern Times

Arnold E. Franklin, Ph.D. (2001), Princeton University, is associate professor in the History Department at Queens College, City University of New York. His research focuses on medieval Jewish society in the Islamic world. His recent book, This Noble House: Jewish Descendants of King David in the Medieval Islamic East (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), is a study of the profound concern with biblical genealogy that developed among Jews in Arabic-speaking lands.Roxani Eleni Margariti, Ph.D. ( 2002), Princeton University, is associate professor at Emory University, and the author of Aden and the Indian Ocean Trade: 150 Years in the Life of a Medieval Arabian Port (University of North Carolina Press, 2007).Marina Rustow, Ph.D. (2004), Columbia University, is the Charlotte Bloomberg professor in the Humanities and an associate professor in the History Department at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Heresy and the Politics of Community: The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate (Cornell University Press, 2008), which won the Salo Baron Prize and the Jordan Schnitzer Award, and the co-editor of Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History: Authority, Diaspora, Tradition (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011).Uriel Simonsohn, Ph.D. (2008), Princeton University, is assistant professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Haifa. He is a historian of early Islamic history. His book, A Common Justice: The Legal Allegiances of Christians and Jews under Early Islam (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), explores the social affiliations of non-Muslims in the first few centuries after the Islamic conquest.

• ContentsNotes on contributorsAcknowledgementsPrefaceAvrom Udovitch IntroductionArnold E. Franklin, Roxani Eleni Margariti, Marina Rustow and Uriel Simonsohn The Bibliography of Mark R. CohenI. CommunityHow Mediterranean Was Goitein’s Mediterranean Society? Norman A. StillmanAṣḥābunā al-tujjār—Our Associates, the Merchants: Non-Jewish Business Partners of the Cairo Geniza’s India TradersRoxani Eleni MargaritiPilgrimage and Charity in the Geniza SocietyMiriam FrenkelPoor Relief in Ottoman Jewish Communities Yaron Ayalon“What Sort of Sermon is This?”: Leadership, Resistance and Gender in a Communal ConflictOded ZingerWhy Did Medieval Northern French Jewry (Ṣarfat) Disappear?Ivan G. Marcus II. ConversionAre Geonic Responsa a Reliable Source for the Study of Jewish Conversion to Islam? A Comparative Analysis of Legal SourcesUriel Simonsohn What’s in a Name? ʿAbd Allāh b. Isḥāq ibn al-Shanāʿa al-Muslimānī al-Isrāʾīlī and Conversion to Islam in Medieval CordobaDavid J. WassersteinJews among the Grandees of Ottoman EgyptJane HathawayRemembrance and Oblivion of Religious Persecutions: On Sanctifying the Name of God (Qiddush ha-Shem) in Christian and Islamic Countries during the Middle AgesMenahem Ben-SassonIII. Law and SocietyThe Muḥammadan Stipulations: Dhimmī Versions of the Pact of ʿUmar Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman Jews in Sharīʿa Courts: A Family Dispute from the Cairo GenizaJessica M. Marglin Perception of Piracy in Islamic Sharīʿa Hassan S. KhaliliehJew and Serf in Medieval France Revisited William Chester JordanCleanliness and Convivencia: Jewish Bathing Culture in Medieval SpainOlivia Remie Constable † IV. Letter Writing and Diplomatics Friendship and Hierarchy: Rhetorical Stances in Geniza Mercantile Letters Jessica L. GoldbergMore than Words on a Page: Letters as Substitutes for an Absent Writer Arnold E. FranklinThe Diplomatics of Leadership: Administrative Documents in Hebrew Script from the GenizaMarina RustowFinancial Troubles: A Mamluk PetitionPetra M. SijpesteijnV. Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic Literature “ʾAz milifnei vereishit”: The Suffering Messiah in the Seventh CenturyMartha HimmelfarbA Panegyric Qaṣīda by Judah Halevi, Its Antecedent by Solomon Ibn Gabirol, and Its AfterlifeRaymond P. Scheindlin Hebrew Vestiges in Saʿadya’s Tafsīr Sasson SomekhEpilogueNatalie Zemon DavisIndex

'In a period marked by an inflation of proliferating Festschriften, it is a pleasure to read a book of quality articles clearly focused on the research areas of a very worthy scholar. Mark R. Cohen, who taught for forty years at Princeton University, pursued innovative investigations of Jewish-Islamic relations in the realms of both economics and politics in light of findings from the Cairo Geniza, a Jewish repository of hundreds of thousands of medieval literary and documentary texts'.DANIEL J . LASKER, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in Renaissance Quarterly Vol. 68, No. 2 (Summer 2015), pp. 706-708