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Wisdom and greatness in one place

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This comprehensive volume presents an edited and translated collection of dozens of 15th-century letters and legal deeds from the Bodleian Library archive belonging to Moses ben Judah, a prominent merchant and Jewish community leader in late Mamluk Alexandria. The documents provide a vivid window into the socio-economic mosaic of medieval Egyptian Jewry, detailing Mediterranean trade networks where Jews bartered alongside Christians and Muslims, as well as the rising social tensions caused by the integration of European Jewish migrants. Furthermore, this text offers invaluable insights for historical linguistics, capturing Judaeo-Arabic at a critical transitional boundary between Classical and Late forms. By exploring the Talmudic concept of combining political leadership and intellectual pre-eminence, the study fundamentally enriches our historical understanding of Jewish communal governance and cross-cultural commerce in the pre-modern Middle East.

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305.8924 ARA w

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Cambridge : Open Book Publisher., 2025

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English

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9781805110705

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305.8924

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unspecified

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Cetakan pertama tahun 2025

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Sejarah Sosial

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