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Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue
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A compelling look at the Fatimid caliphate's robust culture of documentation The lost archive of the Fatimid caliphate (909-1171) survived in an unexpected place: the storage room, or geniza, of a synagogue in Cairo, recycled as scrap paper and deposited there by medieval Jews. Marina Rustow tells the story of this extraordinary find, inviting u

Author Biography:

Marina Rustow is the Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East and professor of Near Eastern studies and history at Princeton University. She is director of the Princeton Geniza Lab and a MacArthur fellow, and is the author of Heresy and the Politics of Community: The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate.
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January 14th, 2020
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  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations
83 color + 17 b/w illus. 4 maps. 4c throughout
Pages
624
ISBN-13
9780691156477
Product ID
31426835

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