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A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza, Volume VI: Cumulative Indices 6 by Shelomo Dov Goitein; Paula Sanders; Gustave E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza, Volume VI: Cumulative Indices 6 about?
This six-volume "portrait of a Mediterranean personality" is a composite portrait of the individuals who wrote the personal letters, contracts, and all other manuscript fragments that found their way into the Cairo Geniza. Most of the fragments from the Geniza, a storeroom for discarded writings that could not be thrown away because they might contain the name of God, had been removed to Cambridge University Library and other libraries around the world. Professor Goitein devoted the last thirty years of his long and productive life to their study, deciphering the language of the documents and organizing what he called a "marvelous treasure trove of manuscripts" into a coherent, fascinating picture of the society that created them. It is a rich, panoramic view of how people lived, traveled, worshiped, and conducted their economic and social affairs. The first and second volumes describe the economic foundations of the society and the institutions and social and political structures that characterized the community. The remaining material, intended for a single volume describing the particulars of the way people lived, blossomed into three volumes, devoted respectively to the family,
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- Author
- Shelomo Dov Goitein; Paula Sanders; Gustave E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520004849
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Islam, Anthropology
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