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The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East - Tracing the Demographic Shift from East to West (Hardcover)
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The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East - Tracing the Demographic Shift from East to West (Hardcover)
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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.
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