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

Name: Maimonides and the Merchants : Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World
Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press

University of Pennsylvania Press

Maimonides and the Merchants\nby Mark R. Cohen\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 8\u20139 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Mark R. Cohen\nTitle: Maimonides and the Merchants\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: European history: medieval period, middle ages\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9780812249149\nISBN-10: 0812249143\nRRP: \u00A362.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nThe advent of Islam in the seventh century brought profound economic changes to the Jews living in the Middle East, and Talmudic law, compiled in and for an agrarian society, was ill equipped to address an increasingly mercantile world. In response, and over the course of the seventh through eleventh centuries, the heads of the Jewish yeshivot of Iraq sought precedence in c.