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

Maimonides and the Merchants : : Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World / / Mark R. Cohen.

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 elevent...

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Cohen, Mark R.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Jewish Culture and Contexts
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Notes and Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Codification and Legal Change
  • Chapter 2. Halakha and the Custom of the Merchants
  • Chapter 3. Updating the Halakha
  • Chapter 4. Partnership
  • Chapter 5. Commercial Agency (Ṣuḥba)
  • Chapter 6. Ṣuḥba- Agency in the Code
  • Chapter 7. Proxy Legal Agency
  • Chapter 8. Sale and Contract
  • Chapter 9. Judicial Autonomy
  • Conclusion. Legal Change and Originality
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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