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Introduction -- Codification and legal change -- Halakha and the custom of the merchants -- Updating the Halakha -- Partnership -- Commercial agency (Ṣuḥba) -- Ṣuḥba -- Agency in the Code -- Proxy legal agency -- Sale and contract -- Judicial autonomy -- Conclusion : legal change and originality.;The advent of Islam in the seventh century brought profound economic changes to the Jews living in the Middle East, and Talmudic law, compiled in and for an agrarian society, was ill equipped to address an increasingly mercantile world. In response, and over the course of the seventh through eleventh centuries, the heads of the Jewish yeshivot of Iraq sought precedence in custom to adapt Jewish law to the new economic and social reality. In Maimonides and the Merchants, Mark R. Cohen reveals the extent of even further pragmatic revisions to the halakha, or body of Jewish law, introduced by Moses Maimonides in his Mishneh Torah, the comprehensive legal code he compiled in the late twelfth century. While Maimonides insisted that he was merely restating already established legal practice, Cohen uncovers the extensive reformulations that further inscribed commerce into Jewish law. Maimonides r

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Author

Jeschiwa;Cohen, Mark R.;Maimonides, Moses

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812249149

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Islam, Religion