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The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East
Phillip Lieberman
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2022-06-23
主題
History / Middle East / General
History / Europe / Medieval
Religion / Comparative Religion
Religion / History
Religion / Islam / General
Religion / Judaism / General
ISBN
1316512223
9781316512227
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=r4doEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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In this book, Phillip Lieberman revisits one of the foundational narratives of medieval Jewish history-that the rise of Islam led the Jews of Babylonia, the largest Jewish community prior to the rise of Islam, to abandon a livelihood based on agriculture and move into urban crafts and long-distance trade. Here, he presents an alternative account that reveals the complexity of interfaith relations in early Islam. Using Jewish and Islamic chronicles, legal materials, and the rich documentary evidence of the Cairo Geniza, Lieberman demonstrates that Jews initially remained on the rural periphery after the Islamic conquest of Iraq. Gradually, they assimilated to an emerging Islamicate identity as the new religion took shape, sapping towns and villages of their strength. Simultaneously, a small, elite group of merchants and communal leaders migrated westward. Lieberman here explores their formative influence on the Jewish communities of the southern Mediterranean that flourished under Islamic conquest.