Description
Product ID: | 9780812249149 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Jewish Culture and Contexts |
Title: | Maimonides and the Merchants |
Subtitle: | Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World |
Authors: | Author: Mark R. Cohen |
Page Count: | 248 |
Subjects: | Social groups: religious groups and communities, Jewish studies |
Description: | Select Guide Rating In Maimonides and the Merchants, Mark R. Cohen reveals the extent of pragmatic revisions to the halakha, or body of Jewish law, introduced by Moses Maimonides in his Mishneh Torah, the comprehensive legal code he compiled in the late twelfth century. The 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 custom to adapt Jewish law to the new economic and social reality. |
Imprint Name: | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Publisher Name: | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2017-07-05 |