Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt: The Origins of the Office of the Head of the Jews, ca. 1065-1126

Mark R. Cohen

Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt: The Origins of the Office of the Head of the Jews, ca. 1065-1126
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Published
28 June 2016
Pages
410
ISBN
9780691642888

Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt: The Origins of the Office of the Head of the Jews, ca. 1065-1126

Mark R. Cohen

Under three successive Islamic dynasties–the Fatimids, the Ayyubids, and the Mamluks–the Egyptian Office of the Head of the Jews (also known as the Nagid) became the most powerful representative of medieval Jewish autonomy in the Islamic world. To determine the origins of this institution, Mark Cohen concentrates on the complex web of internal an

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