LEADER 04892nam 2200781 450 001 9910819073103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-5529-4 010 $a0-8014-5650-9 010 $a0-8014-5530-8 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801455308 035 $a(CKB)3710000000271219 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001335319 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12517889 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001335319 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11272799 035 $a(PQKB)10402475 035 $a(OCoLC)889235669 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37661 035 $a(DE-B1597)478264 035 $a(OCoLC)979969958 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801455308 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138673 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10967322 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681654 035 $a(OCoLC)922998634 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138673 035 $a(dli)HEB31723 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000012937911 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000271219 100 $a20080117d2008 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHeresy and the politics of community $ethe Jews of the Fatimid caliphate /$fMarina Rustow 210 1$aIthaca :$cCornell University Press,$d2008. 215 $a1 online resource (472 pages) $cillustrations, maps 225 1 $aConjunctions of religion and power in the medieval past 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-50372-9 311 $a0-8014-4582-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 395-415) and index. 327 $aThe tripartite community -- Jewish book culture in the tenth century -- The limits of communal autonomy -- Qaraites and the politics of powerlessness -- "Nothing but kindness, benefit, and loyalty" : Qaraites and the ge'onim of Baghdad -- "Under the authority of God and all Israel" : Qaraites and the ge'onim of Jerusalem -- "Glory of the two parties" : petitions to Qaraite courtiers -- The affair of the ban of excommunication in 1029 -- Rabbanite-Qaraite marriages -- In the courts : legal reciprocity -- Avignon in Ramla : the schism of 1038-42 -- The tripartite community and the First Crusade -- Epilogue : toward a history of Jewish heresy. 330 $aIn a book with a bold new view of medieval Jewish history, written in a style accessible to nonspecialists and students as well as to scholars in the field, Marina Rustow changes our understanding of the origins and nature of heresy itself. Scholars have long believed that the Rabbanites and Qaraites, the two major Jewish groups under Islamic rule, split decisively in the tenth century and from that time forward the minority Qaraites were deemed a heretical sect. Qaraites affirmed a right to decide matters of Jewish law free from centuries of rabbinic interpretation; the Rabbanites, in turn, claimed an unbroken chain of scholarly tradition.Rustow draws heavily on the Cairo Geniza, a repository of papers found in a Rabbanite synagogue, to show that despite the often fierce arguments between the groups, they depended on each other for political and financial support and cooperated in both public and private life. This evidence of remarkable interchange leads Rustow to the conclusion that the accusation of heresy appeared sporadically, in specific contexts, and that the history of permanent schism was the invention of polemicists on both sides. Power shifted back and forth fluidly across what later commentators, particularly those invested in the rabbinic claim to exclusive authority, deemed to have been sharply drawn boundaries.Heresy and the Politics of Community paints a portrait of a more flexible medieval Eastern Mediterranean world than has previously been imagined and demonstrates a new understanding of the historical meanings of charges of heresy against communities of faith. Historians of premodern societies will find that, in her fresh approach to medieval Jewish and Islamic culture, Rustow illuminates a major issue in the history of religions. 410 0$aConjunctions of religion & power in the medieval past. 606 $aKaraites$zEgypt$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aKaraites$zSyria$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aJews$zEgypt$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aJews$zSyria$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aJewish heresies$xHistory$yTo 1500 607 $aEgypt$xHistory$y640-1250 607 $aSyria$xHistory$y750-1260 615 0$aKaraites$xHistory 615 0$aKaraites$xHistory 615 0$aJews$xHistory 615 0$aJews$xHistory 615 0$aJewish heresies$xHistory 676 $a296.8/1096209021 700 $aRustow$b Marina$01018943 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819073103321 996 $aHeresy and the politics of community$92399544 997 $aUNINA