Heresy and the politics of community : the Jews of the Fatimid caliphate /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Conjunctions of religion & power in the medieval past.
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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.