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Heresy and the politics of community : the Jews of the Fatimid caliphate / Marina Rustow.

By: Rustow, Marina
Series: Conjunctions of religion and power in the medieval pastPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, c2008.Description: xxxv, 435 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780801445828 (cloth : alk. paper); 0801445825 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Karaites -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500 | Karaites -- Syria -- History -- To 1500 | Jews -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500 | Jews -- Syria -- History -- To 1500 | Jewish heresies -- History -- To 1500 | Egypt -- History -- 640-1250 | Syria -- History -- 750-1260DDC classification: 296.8/1096209021
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.
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Book Book British Museum
Egypt and Sudan Shelves MB1.RUS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 54063000241631

Includes bibliography (p. 395-415) and index.

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.

AESSO14, AES2014