A world within
Subtitle: Jewish life as reflected in Muslim court documents from the Sijill of Jerusalem (XVIth century)
By: Amnon Cohen.
Contributors: Jerusalem. Mehkeme-i şer'iye. Sijill.
Publisher: Center for Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania; Distributed by Eisenbrauns
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: ara; ota; eng
Subjects: Jews -- Jerusalem -- History -- 16th century -- Sources.; Jews -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Jerusalem -- History -- 16th century -- Sources.; Jerusalem -- Ethnic relations -- Sources.
Other titles: Jewish quarterly review (Philadelphia, Pa.).
Notes: Texts in Arabic or Turkish; introd. and abstracts in English.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The present study ... is an accumulation of most 'Jewish' cases found in the 16th-century registers"--Preface.
Pt. 1 contains abstracts prepared by Amnon Cohen of the texts presented in facsimile in pt. 2.
"A Jewish quarterly review supplement."
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Texts; title: pt. 2. Facsimiles.