The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue

ISBN-13: 9780691156477 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 624 str.

Marina Rustow

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A compelling look at the Fatimid caliphate's robust culture of documentationThe 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 u