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The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East

The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East

Phillip Lieberman, Cambridge University Press, 2022 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…

The Order and Disorder of Communication

The Order and Disorder of Communication

Author: Nir Shafir, Stanford University Press, 2024 The seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire was rife with polemical debate, around worshipping at saints’ graves, medical procedures, smoking tobacco, and other everyday practices. Fueling these debates was a new form of writing—the pamphlet, a…

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