Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Bibliography of Works by Mark R. Cohen

Part One Community

How Mediterranean Was Goitein’s Mediterranean Society?

Ashābunā l-tujjār—Our Associates, the Merchants: Non-Jewish Business Partners of the Cairo Geniza’s India Traders

Pilgrimage and Charity in the Geniza Society

Poor Relief in Ottoman Jewish Communities

“What Sort of Sermon is This?” Leadership, Resistance, and Gender in a Communal Conflict

Why Did Medieval Northern French Jewry (Sarfat) Disappear?

Part Two Conversion

Are Gaonic Responsa a Reliable Source for the Study of Jewish Conversion to Islam? A Comparative Analysis of Legal Sources

What’s in a Name? 'Abdallāh b. Ishāq b. al-Shanā'a al-Muslimānī l-Isrā'īlī and Conversion to Islam in Medieval Cordoba

Jews among the Grandees of Ottoman Egypt

Remembrance and Oblivion of Religious Persecutions: On Sanctifying the Name of God (Qiddush ha-Shem) in Christian and Islamic Countries during the Middle Ages

Part Three Law and Society

The Muhammadan Stipulations: Dhimmī Versions of the Pact of 'Umar

Jews in Sharī'a Courts: A Family Dispute from the Cairo Geniza

Perception of Piracy in Islamic Sharī'a

Jew and Serf in Medieval France Revisited

Cleanliness and Convivencia: Jewish Bathing Culture in Medieval Spain

Part Four Letter Writing and Diplomatics

Friendship and Hierarchy: Rhetorical Stances in Geniza Mercantile Letters

More than Words on a Page: Letters as Substitutes for an Absent Writer

The Diplomatics of Leadership: Administrative Documents in Hebrew Script from the Geniza

Financial Troubles: A Mamluk Petition

Part Five Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic Literature

“Az mi-lifnei vereishit”: The Suffering Messiah in the Seventh Century

A Panegyric Qasīda by Yehuda ha-Levi, Its Antecedent by Shelomo Ibn Gabirol, and Its Afterlife

Hebrew Vestiges in Sa'adya's Tafsīr

Epilogue

Index