Lost archive : traces of a caliphate in a Cairo synagogue /

"The lost archive of the Fatimid caliphate (909-1171) survived in an unexpected place: the storage room, or geniza, of a synagogue in Cairo, recycled as scrap paper and deposited there by medieval Jews. Marina Rustow tells the story of this extraordinary find, inviting us to reconsider the long...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rustow, Marina (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Series:Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world.
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Evans: Library Stacks

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Call Number: DT173 .R87 2020
 
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