Maimonides and the Merchants: Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World by Mark R. Cohen

Maimonides and the Merchants: Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World

Jewish Culture and Contexts

Mark R. Cohen

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nonfiction history religion
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The advent of Islam in the seventh century brought profound economic changes to the Jews living in the Middle East, and Talmudic law, compiled in and for an agrarian society, was ill equipped to address an increasingly mercantile world. In respons...

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