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• Preface
• References to prior Publication of Studies included in this Volume
• Abbreviations
• Introduction (Norman A. Stillman)
• Part one the Nature and Development of Islam
• I. The Four Faces of Islam
• II. The Intermediate Civilization/The Hellenic Heritage in Islam
• Part Two Islamic Religious and Political Institutions
• III. Prayer in Islam
• IV. Ramadan, the Muslim Month of Fasting, its Early Development and Religious Meaning
• V. The Origin and Nature of the Muslim Friday Worship
• VI. The Birth-Hour of Muslim Law
• VII. The Sanctity of Jerusalem and Palestine in Early Islam
• VIII. A Turning-Point in the History of the Muslim State
• IX. The Origin of the Vizierate and its True Character
• Appendix
• X. Attitudes towards Government in Islam and Judaism
• Part Three Islamic Social History
• XI. The Rise of the Middle-Eastern Bourgeoisie in Early Islamic Times
• XII. The Mentality of the Middle Class in Medieval Islam
• XIII. The Working People of the Mediterranean Area during the High Middle Ages
• XIV. The Documents of the Cairo Geniza as a Source for Islamic Social History
• Appendix
• XV. The Unity of the Mediterranean World in the "Middle" Middle Ages
• XVI. Medieval Tunisia the Hub of the Mediterranean
• XVII. Letters and Documents on the India Trade in Medieval Times
• XVIII. The Beginnings of the Krim Merchants and the Nature of their Organization
• XIX. The Present Day Arabic Proverb as a Testimony to the Social History of the Middle East
• Index and Glossary.

Goitein's selection of studies dealing with Islamic institutions and social history offers a general introduction to Islamic civilization by one who lived all his life with Islam. His fruit of specialized research gives a rounded view of important aspects of Islamic civilization and provides the student with an opportunity to acquaint himself not only with the results of research, but also with the methods by which they were obtained. With a new foreword by Norman A. Stillman.
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Goitein's selection of studies dealing with Islamic institutions and social history offers a general introduction to Islamic civilization by one who lived all his life with Islam. His fruit of specialized research gives a rounded view of important aspects of Islamic civilization and provides the student with an opportunity to acquaint himself not only with the results of research, but also with the methods by which they were obtained. With a new foreword by Norman A. Stillman.
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The India trade in Oriental spices, pharmaceutical, dyeing and other materials was the backbone of medieval economy, especially in the Islamic world. A unique source of documentation is now available in 11th-12th century Geniza letters, written in Judeo-Arabic (Middle Arabic in Hebrew characters), by participants in this activity. The documents are presented in translation with an introduction and notes. They deal with economic history and material, social, and spiritual civilization. Besides illuminating the activities of the traders of the Jewish Indian Ocean and their families in the territories from the Far East to southern Arabia and Egypt, the letters contain valuable information on Jewish and Islamic culture, relations between Jews and Arabs, Mediterranean culture, and Judeo-Arabic.
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S.D. Goitein's five-volume work on Jewish communities in the medieval Mediterranean world offers a view of how people lived, travelled, worshipped, and conducted their economic and social affairs. Living under Muslim rule, the Jews became increasingly urbanized and played a significant part in an expanding world economy. As major actors in the flourishing intellectual life of the period, they forged much of what constitutes traditional Judaism today and served as a conduit of Islamic learning to the Christian West. Goitein's text is now abridged and reworked by Jacob Lassner in a single volume that attempts to capture the essential narratives and contexts of the original.
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• Vol. I. Economic foundations
• Vol. II. The community
• Vol. III. The family
• Vol. IV. Daily life
• Vol. V. The individual
• Vol. VI. Cumulative indices.

This six-volume 'portrait of a Mediterranean personality' is a composite portrait of the individuals who wrote the personal letters, contracts, and all other manuscript fragments that found their way into the Cairo Geniza. Most of the fragments from the Geniza, a storeroom for discarded writings that could not be thrown away because they might contain the name of God, had been removed to Cambridge University Library and other libraries around the world. Professor Goitein devoted the last thirty years of his long and productive life to their study, deciphering the language of the documents and organizing what he called a 'marvelous treasure trove of manuscripts' into a coherent, fascinating picture of the society that created them. It is a rich, panoramic view of how people lived, travelled, worshipped, and conducted their economic and social affairs. The first and second volumes describe the economic foundations of the society and the institutions and social and political structures that characterized the community. The remaining material, intended for a single volume describing the particulars of the way people lived, blossomed into three volumes, devoted respectively to the family, daily life, and the individual. The divisions are arbitrary but helpful because of the wealth of information. The author refers throughout to other passages in his monumental work that amplify what is discussed in any particular section. The result is an incomparably clear and immediate impression of how it was in the Mediterranean world of the tenth through the thirteenth century. Volume II, subtitled The Community, explores the nature of medieval religious democracy, including discussion of the community, social services, local government, worship, education, interfaith relations, relations between religion and the state, and the relations between the communities and the state.
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• v. 1. Economic foundations.--
• v. 2. The community.--
• v. 3. Family.--
• v. 4. d̀aily life.--
• v. 5. The individual: portrait of a mediterranean personality of the high middle ages as reflected in the Cairo Geniza
• v. 6. Cumulative indices.

This six-volume 'portrait of a Mediterranean personality' is a composite portrait of the individuals who wrote the personal letters, contracts, and all other manuscript fragments that found their way into the Cairo Geniza. Most of the fragments from the Geniza, a storeroom for discarded writings that could not be thrown away because they might contain the name of God, had been removed to Cambridge University Library and other libraries around the world. Professor Goitein devoted the last thirty years of his long and productive life to their study, deciphering the language of the documents and organizing what he called a 'marvelous treasure trove of manuscripts' into a coherent, fascinating picture of the society that created them. It is a rich, panoramic view of how people lived, travelled, worshipped, and conducted their economic and social affairs. The first and second volumes describe the economic foundations of the society and the institutions and social and political structures that characterized the community. The remaining material, intended for a single volume describing the particulars of the way people lived, blossomed into three volumes, devoted respectively to the family, daily life, and the individual. The divisions are arbitrary but helpful because of the wealth of information. The author refers throughout to other passages in his monumental work that amplify what is discussed in any particular section. The result is an incomparably clear and immediate impression of how it was in the Mediterranean world of the tenth through the thirteenth century. Volume II, subtitled The Community, explores the nature of medieval religious democracy, including discussion of the community, social services, local government, worship, education, interfaith relations, relations between religion and the state, and the relations between the communities and the state.
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