Ackerman-Lieberman, Phillip Isaac, 1970-

The business of identity : Jews, Muslims, and economic life in medieval Egypt / Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman. - 1 online resource (463 pages). - Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Jewish, Islamic, or Mediterranean? : historiography and the Cairo Geniza -- Partnership as culture : Jewish law and Jewish life -- Commercial forms and legal norms in the Jewish community of medieval Egypt -- The Geniza, Jewish identity, and medieval Islamic social and economic history -- Appendix : fifteen legal documents concerning partnership.

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Jewish merchants--History--Egypt--To 1500.
Partnership (Jewish law)--History--To 1500.
Commercial law (Jewish law)--History--To 1500.
Jews--Identity--History--Egypt--To 1500.
Cairo Genizah.


Egypt--Commerce--History--To 1500.
Egypt--Economic conditions--640-1517.


Electronic books.

DS135.E4 / A29 2013

381.089/924062