The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East

Tracing the Demographic Shift from East to West

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvPhillip Lieberman,Tennessee) Lieberman, Phillip (Vanderbilt University

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In this book, Phillip Lieberman revisits one of the foundational narratives of medieval Jewish history-that the rise of Islam led the Jews of Babylonia, the largest Jewish community prior to the rise of Islam, to abandon a livelihood based on agriculture and move into urban crafts and long-distance trade. Here, he presents an alternative account that reveals the complexity of interfaith relations in early Islam. Using Jewish and Islamic chronicles, legal materials, and the rich documentary evidence of the Cairo Geniza, Lieberman demonstrates that Jews initially remained on the rural periphery after the Islamic conquest of Iraq. Gradually, they assimilated to an emerging Islamicate identity as the new religion took shape, sapping towns and villages of their strength. Simultaneously, a small, elite group of merchants and communal leaders migrated westward. Lieberman here explores their formative influence on the Jewish communities of the southern Mediterranean that flourished under Islamic conquest.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-06-23
Mått158 x 236 x 22 mm
Vikt640 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor336
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781316512227

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Islam inom Filosofi och religion

Philip Lieberman is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, with affiliations in the School of Law, and departments of Classical and Mediterranean, Islamic, and Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University. A social, economic, and legal historian of the Jews in the medieval Islamic world, he is the editor of The Cambridge History of Judaism, v. 5 and author of Business of Identity, which was a finalist for the National Book Award.

Preface; 1. The field of history and the fields of Iraq; 2. Jewish occupational choice and urbanization in Iraq; 3. Conversion to Islam among the Jews of Early-ʿAbbāsid Iraq; 4. Onomastics, the Cairo Geniza, and Jewish exceptionalism; 5. The early vulgar Judeo-Arabic spelling (EPJAS) and westward movement; 6. The development of Jewish and Islamic commercial law in the early Islamic centuries; 7. Migratory movements throughout the Islamic Mediterranean in the early centuries of Islam.