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ISBN: 9781905739042 1905739044 Year: 2006 Publisher: Oxford : Archaeopress,
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Law --- Cairo Genizah. --- Droit --- Génizah du Caire --- Sources. --- Sources --- Egypt --- Egypte --- History --- Histoire --- Génizah du Caire --- Manuscrits de la Géniza du Caire --- Manuscrits arabes --- Droit islamique --- Documents administratifs --- Égypte --- University of Cambridge. Library --- Civilisation --- Moyen âge --- 640-1798
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ISBN: 9780691156477 0691156476 Year: 2019 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,
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The 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 story 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.
Islam --- History as a science --- Archivistics --- History of Africa --- anno 900-999 --- anno 1000-1099 --- anno 1100-1199 --- Cairo --- Cairo Genizah. --- Fatimites --- Fatimites. --- Manuscripts, Arabic. --- Schriftlichkeit. --- History --- Sources. --- History. --- Fatimiden, --- 647-1517. --- Africa, North --- North Africa. --- Archival resources. --- Sources --- Manuscrits de la Géniza du Caire --- Fāṭimides. --- Le Caire (Égypte) --- Égypte --- Synagogue Ben Ezra.
ISBN: 0521792800 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press
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Cairo Genizah --- Manuscripts, Arabic --- Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic --- Cambridge University Library. --- 091 <41 CAMBRIDGE> --- 091 =927 --- 091 =924 --- Jews --- -Manuscripts, Arabic --- -Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic --- -Rabbinical literature --- -Hebrew literature --- Jewish literature --- Judeo-Arabic manuscripts --- Manuscripts, Arabic (Judeo-Arabic) --- Arabic manuscripts --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Genizah --- Manuscripts, Hebrew --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland--CAMBRIDGE --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Arabisch --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Hebreeuws --- History --- -Manuscripts --- -Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland--CAMBRIDGE --- 091 =924 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Hebreeuws --- 091 =927 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Arabisch --- 091 <41 CAMBRIDGE> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland--CAMBRIDGE --- University of Cambridge --- -Genizah --- Hebrew literature --- -Judeo-Arabic manuscripts --- Rabbinical literature --- Manuscripts --- Cambridge University Library --- Juifs --- Littérature rabbinique --- Manuscrits de la Géniza du Caire --- University of Cambridge. Library --- Moyen-Orient --- Manuscrits --- Manuscrits. Ms. T.S. Ar. 1a-54 --- Jusqu'à 1500 --- Sources
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