Heresy and the politics of community
Subtitle: the Jews of the Fatimid caliphate
By: Marina Rustow.
Series: Conjunctions of religion and power in the medieval past
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
ISBN-13: 9780801445828
Subjects: Karaites -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500; Karaites -- Syria -- History -- To 1500; Jews -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500; Jews -- Syria -- History -- To 1500; Heresies, Jewish -- History -- To 1500; Egypt -- History -- 640-1250; Syria -- History -- 750-1260
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The tripartite community; title: Jewish book culture in the tenth century; title: The limits of communal autonomy; title: Qaraites and the politics of powerlessness; title: "Nothing but kindness, benefit, and loyalty" : Qaraites and the geonim of Baghdad; title: "Under the authority of God and all Israel" : Qaraites and the geonim of Jerusalem; title: "Glory of the two parties" : petitions to Qaraite courtiers; title: The affair of the ban of excommunication in 1029; title: Rabbanite-Qaraite marriages; title: In the courts : legal reciprocity; title: Avignon in Ramla : the schism of 1038-42; title: The tripartite community and the First Crusade; title: Epilogue : toward a history of Jewish heresy.