Maimonides and the Merchants. Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World, Hardback - Mark R. Cohen

In Maimonides and the Merchants, Mark R. Cohen reveals the extent of pragmatic revisions to the halakha, or body of Jewish law, introduced by Moses...

Describing various aspects of life in complex historical eras - cultural, social, religious, and political, this work details such day-to-day activ...

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A comprehensive, rigorous analysis of all the significant medieval Islamic and Jewish proofs for the eternity of the world, the creation of the wor...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor Michelle KarnesNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 159 x 236 x 25C...

Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, The Conspiracy of Capital offers a new history of American radicalism and the alliance between the modern b...

Publisher: The Islamic Texts SocietyAuthor(s): Sukrija Husejn RamicNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 233 x 158 x 22Cover type: ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor Michelle KarnesNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 20C...

This volume examines how the political, economic and social changes of the Great Depression impacted on Hollywood and how it responded to them.

Reducere. A publishing sensation long at the top of the best-seller lists in Israel, the original Hebrew edition of Maimonides and the Book That Changed Juda...

Jewish Women in the Medieval World offers a thematic overview of the lived experiences of Jewish women in both Europe and the Middle East from 500 ...

Publisher: The Islamic Texts SocietyAuthor(s): Mohammad Hashim KamaliNumber of pages: 196Collection: Fundamental Rights and Liberties in Islam Seri...

Publisher: The Islamic Texts SocietyAuthor(s): Sukrija Husejn RamicNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 21Cover type: ...

Publisher: The Islamic Texts SocietyAuthor(s): Mohammad Hashim KamaliNumber of pages: 344Collection: Fundamental Rights and Liberties in Islam Seri...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Richard A. (University of Wolverhampton, UK) HawkinsNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 2022Dimens...

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DescriptionEvery work on Jewish thought and law since the twelfth century bears the imprint of Maimonides. A. N. Whitehead's famous dictum that the...

From the Nuremberg Trials onwards, Jews figure prominently in international legal history. Yet ties between Jewish identity and legal thought rarel...

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Did Muslims and Jews in the Middle Ages cohabit in a peaceful "interfaith utopia"? Or were Jews under Muslim rule persecuted, much as they were in ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 226Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 174 x 244 x 19Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Tom O...

The Black Death was the worst pandemic in recorded history. This book presents a major reevaluation of its immediate impact and longer-term consequ...

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Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Joshua C., J.D., Ph.D. TateIllustration(s): 9 b-w illus.Number of pages: 272Collection: Yale Law Library...

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This book examines the legal conundrum of reconciling international human rights law in a Muslim majority country and identifies a trajectory for n...

Publisher: The Islamic Texts SocietyAuthor(s): Mohammad Hashim KamaliIllustration(s): bibliography, glossary, indexNumber of pages: 276Publication ...

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This book offers a fresh perspective on religious culture in the medieval Middle East. It investigates the ways Muslims thought about and practiced...

A survey of attitudes to marriage as represented in medieval legal and literary texts.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): Conor McCarthyNumbe...

Publisher: The Law SocietyAuthor(s): Carl IslamNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 28Cover type: Mixed media productR...

Publisher: The Islamic Texts SocietyAuthor(s): Mohammad Hashim KamaliNumber of pages: 362Collection: Fundamental Rights and Liberties in Islam Seri...

Pivots away from commonplace accounts of the origins of Jewish politics and focuses on the ongoing activities of actors instrumental in the theolog...

Much of what we know about life in the medieval Islamic Middle East comes from texts written to impart religious ideals or to chronicle the movemen...