The Festschrift Darkhei Noam : The Jews of Arab Lands.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (287 pages)
- Brill's Series in Jewish Studies ; v.55 .
- Brill's Series in Jewish Studies .
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Notes on Contributors -- Festschrift Darkhei Noam: An Introduction -- Chapter 1 Karaite and Sadducee Inheritance Law in Light of Yefet ben ʿElī's Commentary on Genesis 36 -- Chapter 2 Apes and the Sabbath Problem -- Chapter 3 Notes on the Islamic Toponymy of the Holy Land and Holy City -- Chapter 4 A Look at Women's Lives in Cairo Geniza Society -- Chapter 5 The "Custom of the Merchants" in Gaonic Jurisprudence and in Maimonides' Mishneh Torah -- Chapter 6 Yiṣhaq-i Kamāl-A Martyr in Bukhārā -- Chapter 7 "Those Who Walk in the Court of Our Master the King": The Sephardic Courtier Tradition Revisited -- Chapter 8 Deniers et marchandises : le financement commercial des juifs portugais à Bayonne au XVIIIe siècle -- Chapter 9 A Pioneer Publication in Context: Abraham Zevi Idelsohn's Gesänge der Marokkanischen Juden (1928/9) -- Chapter 10 Two Judeo-Arabic Translations of the Scroll of Antiochus from Ghardaïa (Algeria) -- Chapter 11 Secular Trends and Tradition: Post-Immigration Debates and Practices among Yemeni Jews -- Chapter 12 Max Nordau: The Post-Herzl Years -- A Selected Bibliography of Works by Norman (Noam) Stillman -- Index.
The Festschrift Darkhei Noam offers a coherent focus on recent scholarship by international experts in the field on the history of the Jews living in the Islamic World from ancient to modern times.
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Jews--Arab countries--History. Arab countries--Ethnic relations.