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Author Ackerman-Lieberman, Phillip Isaac, 1970-

Title The business of identity : Jews, Muslims, and economic life in medieval Egypt / Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]
2014

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Description 1 online resource (463 pages).
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Series Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Jewish, Islamic, or Mediterranean? : historiography and the Cairo Geniza -- Partnership as culture : Jewish law and Jewish life -- Commercial forms and legal norms in the Jewish community of medieval Egypt -- The Geniza, Jewish identity, and medieval Islamic social and economic history -- Appendix : fifteen legal documents concerning partnership.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Jewish merchants -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500.
Partnership (Jewish law) -- History -- To 1500.
Commercial law (Jewish law) -- History -- To 1500.
Jews -- Egypt -- Identity -- History -- To 1500.
Cairo Genizah.
Egypt -- Commerce -- History -- To 1500.
Egypt -- Economic conditions -- 640-1517.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Ackerman-Lieberman, Phillip Isaac. Business of identity : Jews, Muslims, and economic life in medieval Egypt. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014] xiv, 446 pages Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture 9780804785471 (DLC)10837145
ISBN 9780804785471 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804787161 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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