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In den Warenkorbpaperback. Zustand: Near Fine. DETAILS: square sewn PAPERBACK, attractive copy, near fine, probably unused. RUSTOW, MARINA / MINTZ, SHARON LIBERMAN / DEITSCH, ELKA. Scripture and schism: Samaritan and Karaite treasures from the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary : an exhibition December 14, 2000-April 5, 2001. Exhibition… curators, Marina Rustow, Sharon Liberman Mintz, Elka Deitsch. New York, NY: The Library, 2000, 128pp., . CONTENTS: Preface INTRODUCTION: The Makings of a Jewish Schism THE SAMARITANS -- I. From Scripture to Schism: Samaritan Origins -- II. Samaritan Customs and Ceremonies -- III. The Samaritan Renaissance of Late Antiquity and the Encounter with Rabbinic Judaism -- IV. Samaritan Responses to Arab and Islamic Culture THE KARAITES -- Karaites in the Islamic world -- I. "Search Diligently in the Torah": Karaite Beginnings -- II, Intertwined Worlds: Karaite-Rabbanite Relations in the Genizah Communities -- II. Age of Polemics: Karaites Come under Rabbanite Fire -- IV. Egyptian Karaism The Move Northward: Karaism in Greek, Turkish, and Russian lands -- V. Byzantine and Ottoman Karaism: Compromise and Codification -- VI. Karaites and Krimchaks: The Crimean Communities -- VII. Troki, Lutsk, Halicz, and Kiev: The Eastern European Communities -- VIII. Under the Czars: The Karaites Become a People Apart -- IX. The Firkovich Controversies: Scholarship in the Service of Separatism SAMARITANS AND KARAITES IN THE EYES OF CHRISTIAN HEBRAISTS Glossary Selected Bibliography. 9780873340830 ISBN 0873340833.
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Hardback. Zustand: New. A compelling look at the Fatimid caliphate's robust culture of documentationThe 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 stor…y of this extraordinary find, inviting us to reconsider the longstanding but mistaken consensus that before 1500 the dynasties of the Islamic Middle East produced few documents, and preserved even fewer.Beginning with government documents before the Fatimids and paper's westward spread across Asia, Rustow reveals a millennial tradition of state record keeping whose very continuities suggest the strength of Middle Eastern institutions, not their weakness. Tracing the complex routes by which Arabic documents made their way from Fatimid palace officials to Jewish scribes, the book provides a rare window onto a robust culture of documentation and archiving not only comparable to that of medieval Europe, but, in many cases, surpassing it. Above all, Rustow argues that the problem of archives in the medieval Middle East lies not with the region's administrative culture, but with our failure to understand preindustrial documentary ecology.Illustrated with stunning examples from the Cairo Geniza, this compelling book advances our understanding of documents as physical artifacts, showing how the records of the Fatimid caliphate, once recovered, deciphered, and studied, can help change our thinking about the medieval Islamicate world and about premodern polities more broadly.
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Hardback. Zustand: New. A compelling look at the Fatimid caliphate's robust culture of documentationThe 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 stor…y of this extraordinary find, inviting us to reconsider the longstanding but mistaken consensus that before 1500 the dynasties of the Islamic Middle East produced few documents, and preserved even fewer.Beginning with government documents before the Fatimids and paper's westward spread across Asia, Rustow reveals a millennial tradition of state record keeping whose very continuities suggest the strength of Middle Eastern institutions, not their weakness. Tracing the complex routes by which Arabic documents made their way from Fatimid palace officials to Jewish scribes, the book provides a rare window onto a robust culture of documentation and archiving not only comparable to that of medieval Europe, but, in many cases, surpassing it. Above all, Rustow argues that the problem of archives in the medieval Middle East lies not with the region's administrative culture, but with our failure to understand preindustrial documentary ecology.Illustrated with stunning examples from the Cairo Geniza, this compelling book advances our understanding of documents as physical artifacts, showing how the records of the Fatimid caliphate, once recovered, deciphered, and studied, can help change our thinking about the medieval Islamicate world and about premodern polities more broadly.
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