LEADER 05083nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910464137303321 005 20211014011309.0 010 $a1-283-89857-8 010 $a0-8122-0640-1 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812206401 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046506 035 $a(OCoLC)822017924 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642713 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000601839 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11340090 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000601839 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10566538 035 $a(PQKB)10411986 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441961 035 $a(OCoLC)830023641 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17521 035 $a(DE-B1597)449629 035 $a(OCoLC)979576717 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812206401 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441961 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642713 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421107 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046506 100 $a20120123d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aThis noble house$b[electronic resource] $eJewish descendants of King David in the medieval Islamic East /$fArnold E. Franklin 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (316 p.) 225 0 $aJewish Culture and Contexts 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-4409-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [253]-275) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. "Shar?f of the Jewish Nation": Reconceptualizing the House of David in the Islamic East --$tChapter 2. "The Truth of the Pedigree": Documenting Origins and the Public Performance of Lineage --$tChapter 3. Ancestry as Authority: Lineage and Power in Near Eastern Jewish Society --$tChapter 4. "Designated in the Past and for the Future": Davidic Dynasts and Medieval Messianic Anticipation --$tChapter 5. "The Shar?f of Every People Is Well-Born": Genealogy and the Legitimization of Minority Culture --$tConclusion --$tAppendix A. Halper 462: Transcription and Translation --$tAppendix B. A Tentative List of Davidic Dynasts Datable between ca. 950 and ca. 1450 --$tAbbreviations --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex of Manuscript Sources --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aThis Noble House explores the preoccupation with biblical genealogy that emerged among Jews in the Islamic Near East between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries. Arnold Franklin looks to Jewish society's fascination with Davidic ancestry, examining the profusion of claims to the lineage that had already begun to appear by the year 1000, the attempts to chart the validity of such claims through elaborate genealogical lists, and the range of meanings that came to be ascribed to the House of David in this period. Jews and Muslims shared the perception that the Davidic line and the noble family of the Prophet Muhammad were counterparts to one another, but captivation with Davidic lineage was just one facet of a much broader Jewish concern with biblical ancestry. Based on documentary material from the Cairo Geniza, the book argues that this "genealogical turn" should be understood as a consequence of Jewish society's dynamic encounter with its Arab-Islamic milieu and constituted a selective adaptation to the importance of ancestry in the dominant cultural environment. While Jewish society surely had genealogical materials and preoccupations of its own upon which to draw, the Arab-Islamic regard for tracing the lineage of Muhammad provided the impetus for deploying those traditions in new and unprecedented ways. On the one hand, the increased focus on ancestry is an instance of medieval Jews reflexively and unselfconsciously making use of the cultural forms of their Muslim neighbors; on the other, it is an expression of cultural competitiveness or even resistance, an implicit response to the claim of Arab genealogical superiority that uses the very methods of the Arab "science of genealogy." To be sure, Franklin notes, Jews were only one of several non-Arab minority groups to take up genealogy in this way. At the broadest level, then, This Noble House illuminates a strategy that various minority populations utilized as they sought legitimacy within the medieval Arab-Islamic world. 410 0$aJewish culture and contexts. 606 $aJews$xNobility 606 $aJews$vGenealogy 606 $aJudaism$xRelations$xIslam 606 $aIslam$xRelations$xJudaism 607 $aIslamic Empire$xEthnic relations 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aJews$xNobility. 615 0$aJews 615 0$aJudaism$xRelations$xIslam. 615 0$aIslam$xRelations$xJudaism. 676 $a296.3/97 700 $aFranklin$b Arnold E$g(Arnold Efrem),$f1971-$01045483 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464137303321 996 $aThis noble house$92471802 997 $aUNINA