Mark R. Cohen
Autore di Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages
Sull'Autore
Mark R. Cohen is Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and a well-known authority on the Cairo Geniza and the history of the Jews in the medieval Islamic world
Fonte dell'immagine: Prof. Mark Robert Cohen (courtesy of Princeton University)
Opere di Mark R. Cohen
Opere correlate
"From a Sacred Source": Genizah Studies in Honour of Professor Stefan C. Reif (Etudes Sur Le Judaisme Medieval) (2010) — Collaboratore — 8 copie
Semitic Papyrology in Context: A Climate of Creativity. : Papers from a New York University Conference Marking the… (2003) — Collaboratore — 8 copie
Judaism and Islam : boundaries, communication, and interaction : essays in honor of William M. Brinner — Collaboratore — 4 copie
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- Opere
- 9
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- 3
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- 301
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- #78,062
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- 3.7
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- 3
- ISBN
- 24
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- 4
Examining almost a thousand of these documents, Cohen looks at the strategies that were used to provide assistance to the Jewish poor, particularly in the context of the fact that the society in which these people lived was overwhelmingly Islamic. He sees a society in which kinship and patronage networks were incredibly important, in which the provision of charity was a kind of 'social glue' which bound the community together, and in which charity was expressed—and charitable institutions constituted—in different ways to charity as thought of in medieval Islam or Christianity. I was fascinated particularly by the documents Cohen brought together which showed just how much interaction there was between Jews from a variety of different regions at this period—from modern Iran, Turkey, Slavic regions, even some proselytes from France. Medieval Cairo was truly a cosmopolitan place.
While I confess that some of the finer points about word definition/usage and significance went a little over my head, as I know neither Hebrew nor Arabic, this is still a fascinating and important book. Cohen demonstrates that given such a cache of documents (which may, alas, be unique for the medieval Mediterranean world), it is possible to construct a history of mentalité for "regular", non-élite people. Highly recommended.… (altro)