Abstract The Cairo Geniza contains thousands of pieces of correspondence, but they have not been analysed as genres. Separating out the ‘commercial letters’ ... Notes 1 The following abbreviations for collections of Geniza fragments are used in this article: AIU: Paris, ... have been reconstructed as a single document. Cairo Geniza refers to one specific geniza, that of the Ben Ezra synagogue of the ... congregation of Fustat. The heyday of the ‘documentary geniza’ that includes these kinds of documents is c. ...
Tópico(s): Islamic Studies and History
2012 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Medieval History
... the great importance of the so-called Cairo Geniza documents as a primary source for medieval Mediterranean ... the indefatigable work of S. D. Goitein. The Geniza documents also provide an important source for one ... The some 750 trousseau lists from the Cairo Geniza, in combination with ancillary Geniza records, offer a wealth of information—hitherto unexploited— ...
Tópico(s): African history and culture analysis
1976 - Cambridge University Press | International Journal Middle East Studies
... has been preserved in the so-called Cairo Geniza.2 The Hebrew word geniza, like Arabic jandza (which means burial), is derived ... 1, stands almost for archive. In mediaeval Hebrew, Geniza, or Beth Geniza, designates a repository of discarded writings. For just ...
Tópico(s): Historical and Linguistic Studies
1960 - American Oriental Society | Journal of the American Oriental Society
... Islamic world has changed as research on Cairo Geniza documents has assumed a more central place in ... those communities as autonomous, self-enclosed, and hierarchical, Geniza-based work has emphasized their multiple points of ... actually worked, especially rabbinical courts. Whereas work on Geniza legal documents has focused mainly on litigants and ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and Historical Studies
2014 - Indiana University Press | Jewish Social Studies
... of the Middle Ages: Documents from the Cairo Geniza (“India Book”) India Traders of the Middle Ages: Documents from the Cairo Geniza (“India Book”) S. D. Goitein and Mordechai A. ... of the Middle Ages: Documents from the Cairo Geniza (“India Book”). Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa ...
Tópico(s): Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
2009 - Duke University Press | Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East
Geniza, as is well known, denotes the lumber-room of a synagogue or any other place in ... are called, by a common designation, ((the Cairo Geniza ). I have, however, little doubt that the many ... of material brought to light from the Cairo Geniza is very considerable. The late Solomon Schechter estimated ...
Tópico(s): Historical and Linguistic Studies
1955 - Brill | Studia Islamica
... The Library is a discussion of the Cairo Geniza, the irreplaceable primary-source collections of manuscript fragments ... as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza and Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole’s Sacred ... The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza provide admirable subject coverage.3 In “Manuscript Libraries ...
Tópico(s): Library Science and Administration
2023 - Penn State University Press | Libraries Culture History and Society
... and cheap books in particular is the Cairo Geniza. Only a few documents contain explicit information about ... fragments of rotuli or bookrolls from the Cairo Geniza, this paper examines the ways of making cheaper ...
Tópico(s): Medieval and Classical Philosophy
2016 - Brill | Intellectual History of the Islamicate World
... have looked to business letters from the Cairo Geniza to understand how medieval merchants in the Islamic ... religious courts. However, economic historians relying on the Geniza documents have paid inadequate attention to evolving Jewish ...
Tópico(s): Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
2013 - Brill | Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
... the Poor and Clothing the Naked: The Cairo Geniza Mark R. Cohen Mark R. Cohen Professor of ... the Poor and Clothing the Naked: The Cairo Geniza. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2005; 35 (3): ...
Tópico(s): Colonialism, slavery, and trade
2004 - The MIT Press | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
This article is based on letters from the Geniza. The writers were merchants who dealt in imports ... third part discusses the information contained in the Geniza documents on the conquest of Jerusalem (638). This ...
Tópico(s): Medieval History and Crusades
2004 - Cambridge University Press | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
... merchants, or regarding them, found in the Cairo Geniza. The following topics are discussed: (a) Partnership; it ... des documents qui les concernent, préservés dans la Geniza du Caire. Les points principaux en sont : (a) ...
Tópico(s): Islamic Studies and History
2003 - Brill | Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
The first comprehensive survey of Geniza documents about the trade on the route to India was published by me in Speculum, A Journal of the American Medieval ... was able to give a report about 130 Geniza papers related in one way or another to ...
Tópico(s): Eurasian Exchange Networks
1987 - Cambridge University Press | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
Frank Rosenthal, S. D. Goıteın,
... fragments that found their way into the Cairo Geniza. Most of the fragments from the Geniza, a storeroom for discarded writings that could not ...
Tópico(s): Byzantine Studies and History
1974 - Oxford University Press | The American Historical Review
... utilize are letters and petitions from the Cairo Geniza that employ the same specialized vocabulary of patron- ... reciprocal service, protection, oversight, patronage, and loyalty. The Geniza letters, written without regard for posterity, suggest that ...
Tópico(s): Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
2008 - Spanish National Research Council | Al-Qanṭara
Cläre von Neubeck, Harish Shankaran, Matthew Geniza, Paula M. Kauer, R J Robinson, William Chrisler, Marianne B. Sowa,
... author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Matthew J. Geniza, Matthew J. Geniza Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Oregon State University, ...
Tópico(s): PARP inhibition in cancer therapy
2013 - Oxford University Press | Integrative Biology
... Arabic in the India Book Letters from the Geniza and in Other Texts." Al-Masāq, 29(3), ...
Tópico(s): African history and culture analysis
2017 - Taylor & Francis | Al-Masāq
... inspiration for scholars of various disciplines, and the Geniza commercial papers in particular have been the subject ...
Tópico(s): Colonialism, slavery, and trade
2014 - Taylor & Francis | Accounting History Review
... 11. Conclusion: the Mediterranean through the eyes of Geniza merchants Glossary of terms Bibliography.
Tópico(s): Byzantine Studies and History
2013 - Association of College and Research Libraries | Choice Reviews Online
Tópico(s): Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
2009 - Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies | Journal of Jewish Studies
... D. as Reflected in Documents from the Cairo Geniza*Moshe GilMoshe GilTel Aviv University Search for more ...
Tópico(s): Biblical Studies and Interpretation
2008 - University of Chicago Press | Journal of Near Eastern Studies
... Charity in the Fourteenth Century 191 List of Geniza Texts 199 Bibliography 203 Index 209
Tópico(s): Colonialism, slavery, and trade
2006 - Association of College and Research Libraries | Choice Reviews Online
The Cairo Geniza continues to bring to light an ever more comprehensive picture of the social, political and economic life of ...
Tópico(s): Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
2006 - University of Pennsylvania Press | The Jewish Quarterly Review
... as Seen in Merchants' Letters from the Cairo Geniza*Moshe GilMoshe GilTel Aviv University Search for more ...
Tópico(s): Eurasian Exchange Networks
2004 - University of Chicago Press | Journal of Near Eastern Studies
... of children's exercise books from the Cairo Geniza. The aims are to provide a general presentation ...
Tópico(s): Jewish Identity and Society
2003 - Oxford University Press | Journal of Semitic Studies
(1991). Spanish ladies from the Cairo Geniza. Mediterranean Historical Review: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 237-267.
Tópico(s): Historical and Linguistic Studies
1991 - Taylor & Francis | Mediterranean Historical Review
The Geniza documents contain frequent references to economic and commercial contacts of Jewish merchants from Egypt and North Africa ...
Tópico(s): Medieval History and Crusades
1971 - American Oriental Society | Journal of the American Oriental Society
The writings of the Cairo Geniza (10th through 13th centuries) show that derisive nicknames served as family names even in official documents handed over to the parties ... of the paper discusses Arabic nicknames from the Geniza documents of which it can be proved that ...
Tópico(s): Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
1970 - American Oriental Society | Journal of the American Oriental Society
... which finally would find their way into the Geniza). Payment by promissory notes, also called ruq'a, was widespread. The Geniza has preserved also a bunch of zo20 ruq' ...
Tópico(s): Historical and Linguistic Studies
1966 - Brill | Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
... the slaves in the society reflected in the Geniza records, we must free ourselves entirely of the ...
Tópico(s): Classical Antiquity Studies
1962 - Brill | Arabica