2026/03/12 by Jane Hathaway · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Medieval and Classical Philosophy #Islamic Studies and History #Historical and Linguistic Studies
paper · doi:10.11647/obp.0502
openalex publication_date 2026/03/12 · openalex created_date 2026/03/13 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
This groundbreaking volume marks a rare and transformative contribution to studies of the Cairo Genizah, a vast trove of documents generated by Egypt’s Jewish community between the 10th and 19th centuries. While the Cairo Genizah has long yielded extraordinary insights into Jewish history in the greater Mediterranean region, attention has focused overwhelmingly on documents from the ‘classical’ period (11th–13th centuries). Documents from the later period, when Egypt was ruled by the Mamluk Sultanate and the Ottoman Empire, remain woefully underexplored. This book helps to change that, presenting a meticulously curated collection of later Genizah documents that expand the boundaries of current scholarship.