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049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aRustow, Marina.
245	1	0	_aHeresy and the Politics of Community : _bThe Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate / _cMarina Rustow.
264		1	_aIthaca, N.Y. : _bCornell University Press, _c[2014]
264		4	_c©2008
300			_a1 online resource.
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490	1		_aConjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
505	0		_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tList of Illustrations and Maps -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tNote on Transliteration, Transcription, and Citations -- _tIntroduction -- _tAbbreviations -- _tPart I: The Shape of the Jewish Community -- _t1. The Tripartite Community -- _t2. Jewish Book Culture in the Tenth Century -- _t3. The Limits of Communal Autonomy -- _tPart II: Rabbanites, Qaraites, and the Politics of Leadership -- _t4. Qaraites and the Politics of Powerlessness -- _t5. “Nothing but Kindness, Benefit, and Loyalty”: Qaraites and the Ge'onim of Baghdad -- _t6. “Under the Authority of God and All Israel”: Qaraites and the Ge'onim of Jerusalem -- _t7. “Glory of the Two Parties”: Petitions to Qaraite Courtiers -- _t8. The Affair of the Ban of Excommunication in 1029 -- _tPart III: Scholastic Loyalty and Its Limits -- _t9. Rabbanite-Qaraite Marriages -- _t10. In the Courts: Legal Reciprocity -- _tPart IV: The Origins of Territorial Governance -- _t11. Avignon in Ramla: The Schism of 1038–42 -- _t12. The Tripartite Community and the First Crusade -- _tEpilogue: Toward a History of Jewish Heresy -- _tGlossary -- _tGuide to Places and People -- _tManuscript Sources -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex
520			_aIn a book with a bold new view of medieval Jewish history, written in a style accessible to nonspecialists and students as well as to scholars in the field, Marina Rustow changes our understanding of the origins and nature of heresy itself. Scholars have long believed that the Rabbanites and Qaraites, the two major Jewish groups under Islamic rule, split decisively in the tenth century and from that time forward the minority Qaraites were deemed a heretical sect. Qaraites affirmed a right to decide matters of Jewish law free from centuries of rabbinic interpretation; the Rabbanites, in turn, claimed an unbroken chain of scholarly tradition. Rustow draws heavily on the Cairo Geniza, a repository of papers found in a Rabbanite synagogue, to show that despite the often fierce arguments between the groups, they depended on each other for political and financial support and cooperated in both public and private life. This evidence of remarkable interchange leads Rustow to the conclusion that the accusation of heresy appeared sporadically, in specific contexts, and that the history of permanent schism was the invention of polemicists on both sides. Power shifted back and forth fluidly across what later commentators, particularly those invested in the rabbinic claim to exclusive authority, deemed to have been sharply drawn boundaries. Heresy and the Politics of Community paints a portrait of a more flexible medieval Eastern Mediterranean world than has previously been imagined and demonstrates a new understanding of the historical meanings of charges of heresy against communities of faith. Historians of premodern societies will find that, in her fresh approach to medieval Jewish and Islamic culture, Rustow illuminates a major issue in the history of religions.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 14, 2016).
590			_aOCLC control number change
650		0	_aJews _zEgypt _xHistory _yTo 1500.
650		0	_aJews _zSyria _xHistory _yTo 1500.
650		0	_aKaraites _zEgypt _xHistory _yTo 1500.
650		0	_aKaraites _zSyria _xHistory _yTo 1500.
650		7	_aRELIGION _xJudaism _xGeneral. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aJewish heresies. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01730501
650		7	_aJews. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00983135
650		7	_aKaraites. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00986199
651		7	_aEgypt. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01208755
651		7	_aSyria. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01208757
648		7	_aTo 1500 _2fast
655		4	_aElectronic books.
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aRustow, Marina. _tHeresy and the Politics of Community : The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate. _dIthaca : Cornell University Press, ©1900 _z9780801456503
830		0	_aConjunctions of religion & power in the medieval past.
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