The lost archive : traces of a caliphate in a Cairo synagogue / Marina Rustow.
The lost archive : traces of a caliphate in a Cairo synagogue / Marina Rustow.
The lost archive : traces of a caliphate in a Cairo synagogue / Marina Rustow.
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Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
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G 2021/4373
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English
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598 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles (some color), color maps ; 27 cm.
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still image
cartographic image
text
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unmediated
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volume
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Publisher
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Date Published
[2020]
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Summary
"The lost archive of the Fatimid caliphate (909-1171) survived in an unexpected place: the storage room, or geniza, of a synagogue in Cairo, recycled as scrap paper and deposited there by medieval Jews. Marina Rustow tells the story of this extraordinary find, inviting us to reconsider the longstanding but mistaken consensus that before 1500 the dy...
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The lost archive : traces of a caliphate in a Cairo synagogue / Marina Rustow.
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Traces of a caliphate in a Cairo synagogue
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Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world
Includes bibliographical references (pages 535-575) and indexes.
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©2020
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G 2021/4373
Record Identifier
74VKa32mV6BA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKa32mV6BA
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ISBN
0691156476
9780691156477
DDC
962.02
MMS ID
991024403618702626
