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

Mark R. Cohen

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2017

Maimonides and the Merchants

Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World

Mark R. Cohen

In the series Jewish Culture and Contexts

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812294002

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About this book

In Maimonides and the Merchants, Mark R. Cohen reveals the extent of pragmatic revisions to the halakha, or body of Jewish law, introduced by Moses Maimonides in his Mishneh Torah, the comprehensive legal code he compiled in the late twelfth century.

Author / Editor information

Mark R. Cohen is Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East, Emeritus, and Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Emeritus, Princeton University. He is author of Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt and Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages.

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"Maimonides and the Merchants opens a new window onto Maimonides' unprecedentedly systematic and comprehensive code of law. Cohen's exceptionally clear and cogent readings of Mishneh Torah, balanced against previous rabbinic legal writings on the one hand and Geniza evidence on the other, successfully establish Mishneh Torah as a social-political endeavor addressed to a real-life audience."—Islamic Law and Society

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Notes and Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Codification and Legal Change Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Chapter 2. Halakha and the Custom of the Merchants Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Chapter 3. Updating the Halakha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Chapter 4. Partnership Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Chapter 5. Commercial Agency (Ṣuḥba) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
Chapter 6. Ṣuḥba- Agency in the Code Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
Chapter 7. Proxy Legal Agency Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Chapter 8. Sale and Contract Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
Chapter 9. Judicial Autonomy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Conclusion. Legal Change and Originality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 248
Keywords: Religion; Jewish Studies; Religious Studies; Medieval and Renaissance Studies

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Published: May 12, 2017
ISBN: 9780812294002