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    Tracing the Demographic Shift from East to West

    In this book, Phillip Lieberman revisits one of the foundational narratives of medieval Jewish history—that the rise of Islam led the Jews of Babylonia, the largest Jewish community prior to the rise of Islam, to abandon a livelihood based on agriculture and move into urban crafts and long-distance trade. Here, he presents an alternative account that reveals the complexity of interfaith relations ... Read more

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    Faith-based finance presents a unique approach to financial systems by aligning economic practices with religious values and ethical principles. As global interest in ethical and sustainable finance grows, exploring the common financial teachings of the Abrahamic religions offers a compelling opportunity for innovation and cooperation across religious and cultural lines. By drawing on shared ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 5, Jews in the Medieval Islamic World

    Edited by Phillip I. Lieberman ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Judaism
    Volume 5 examines the history of Judaism in the Islamic World from the rise of Islam in the early sixth century to the expulsion of Jews from Spain at the end of the fifteenth. This period witnessed radical transformations both within the Jewish community itself and in the broader contexts in which the Jews found themselves. The rise of Islam had a decisive influence on Jews and Judaism as the ... Read more

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  • The Guide to the Perplexed

    A New Translation

    A landmark new translation of the most significant text in medieval Jewish thought.Written in Arabic and completed around 1190, the Guide to the Perplexed is among the most powerful and influential living texts in Jewish philosophy, a masterwork navigating the straits between religion and science, logic and revelation. The author, Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, commonly known as Maimonides or as Rambam, ... Read more

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  • Atlas of Allergic Diseases

    The Atlas of Allergic Diseases provides comprehensive visual coverage of all aspects of allergic diseases. Exceptional photographs, diagrams, charts and illustrations in full color help to illustrate the abstract elements of allergic diseases in vivid detail. With contributions from renowned specialists, this detailed and useful atlas combines the immunologic basis of allergy with the clinical ... Read more

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  • The Business of Identity

    Jews, Muslims, and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt

    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    The Cairo Geniza is the largest and richest store of documentary evidence for the medieval Islamic world. This book seeks to revolutionize the way scholars use that treasure trove. Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman draws on legal documents from the Geniza to reconceive of life in the medieval Islamic marketplace. In place of the shared practices broadly understood by scholars to have transcended ... Read more

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  • Religion and Identity in the Indian Ocean World

    This is a ground-breaking volume on the role of religion as a major force of cohesion across the Indian Ocean region.A diverse range of experts present a case for conceptualizing religion as an enabler of not only shared religious identities throughout the Indian Ocean world, but multiple shared identities mediated through religion, particularly as religion intersects with other manifestations of ... Read more

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