Heresy and the politics of community : the Jews of the Fatimid caliphate /

Heresy and the politics of community : the Jews of the Fatimid caliphate /

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Main Author: Rustow, Marina (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.

Series: Conjunctions of religion & power in the medievil past.

Subjects:

Karaites > Egypt > History > To 1500.
Karaites > Syria > History > To 1500.
Jews > Egypt > History > To 1500.
Jews > Syria > History > To 1500.
heresies, Jewish > History > To 1500.
Egypt > History > 640-1250.
Syria > History > 750-1260.

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Call Number: BM185 .R86 2008

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Table of 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.