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India Traders of the Middle Ages: Documents from the Cairo Geniza ("India Book")

India Traders of the Middle Ages: Documents from the Cairo Geniza ("India Book") om ti v d St u ca fri st ies an of d So A u th M ,A th e l. Vo © 20 3, o. 09 iv ,N b u yD ke Un it er s yP res Geniza documents provide unique access to the lived world of Jewish merchants based in Cairo but trading across the Indian Ocn and the Mediterrann S during much of the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries. Scholars of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle st have long awaited the publication of this sourcebook, containing nrly two hundred documents (out of more than three hundred relating to India), ch meticulously translated and annotated. This was a book more than fifty yrs in the making. While some scholars have alrdy drawn on these incomparable primary materials, either through their own or rlier translations, the volume under review will likely remain a definitive source for these documents herfter. The Geniza papers, written in Judeo-Arabic language in the Hebrew alphabet, survived as a result of piety and our good fortune. Jewish merchants often included the name of God in their letters, account books, complaints, pls, and reports; therefore, rather than simply disposed of, these http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East Duke University Press

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Duke University Press
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1089-201X
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om ti v d St u ca fri st ies an of d So A u th M ,A th e l. Vo © 20 3, o. 09 iv ,N b u yD ke Un it er s yP res Geniza documents provide unique access to the lived world of Jewish merchants based in Cairo but trading across the Indian Ocn and the Mediterrann S during much of the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries. Scholars of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle st have long awaited the publication of this sourcebook, containing nrly two hundred documents (out of more than three hundred relating to India), ch meticulously translated and annotated. This was a book more than fifty yrs in the making. While some scholars have alrdy drawn on these incomparable primary materials, either through their own or rlier translations, the volume under review will likely remain a definitive source for these documents herfter. The Geniza papers, written in Judeo-Arabic language in the Hebrew alphabet, survived as a result of piety and our good fortune. Jewish merchants often included the name of God in their letters, account books, complaints, pls, and reports; therefore, rather than simply disposed of, these

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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East – Duke University Press

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