Jews in Islamic Countries in the Middle Ages

Table of contents

• Jews in Islamic Countries in the Middle Ages i
• Études Sur le JudaÏsme MÉdiÉval ii
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Tables and Lists xii
• Preface xiii
• Abbreviations xxv
• Glossary of Hebrew and Arabic Terms xxvii
• Part One - In the Arab Peninsula 1
• Chapter One - The Origin of the Jews of Yathrib 3
• Chapter Two - The Constitution of Medina 21
• Part Two - The Jews of Babylonia and Persia 47
• Chapter One - From Sasanian to Islamic Rule 49
• Chapter Two - The Exilarchate 83
• Chapter Three - The Yeshivot 117
• Chapter Four - The Controversies in the Tenth Century 207
• Chapter Five - The Sects 241
• Chapter Six - Annals of the Jews of Babylonia and Persia 273
• Chapter Seven - The Jewish Communities of Babylonia and Persia 491
• Part Three - Sicily and Its Jews, 827–1072, in the Light of the Geniza Documents and Parallel Sources 533
• Chapter One - Muslim Rule in Sicily 535
• Chapter Two - Sicily's Economy and the Jewish Merchants 563
• Chapter Three - The Towns 575
• Chapter Four - The Jews of Sicily 579
• Part Four - The Jews in the Economic Life of the Islamic World in the Geonic Period 595
• Chapter One - Agriculture; Land Assets 597
• Chapter Two - The Major Occupations 603
• Chapter Three - Slaves 607
• Chapter Four - Jewish Merchants and Financiers 615
• Chronology 723
• Bibliographical Index 749
• General Index 791
• Études Sur le JudaÏsme MÉdiÉval 829

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