Book contents
- The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East
- The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 The Field of History and the Fields of Iraq
- 2 Jewish Occupational Choice and Urbanization in Iraq
- 3 Conversion to Islam among the Jews of Early ʿAbbāsid Iraq
- 4 Onomastics, the Cairo Geniza, and Jewish Exceptionalism
- 5 The Early Vulgar Judeo-Arabic Spelling (EPJAS) and Westward Movement
- 6 The Development of Jewish and Islamic Commercial Law in the Early Islamic Centuries
- 7 Migratory Movements throughout the Islamic Mediterranean in the Early Islamic Centuries
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - The Development of Jewish and Islamic Commercial Law in the Early Islamic Centuries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 June 2022
Book contents
- The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East
- The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 The Field of History and the Fields of Iraq
- 2 Jewish Occupational Choice and Urbanization in Iraq
- 3 Conversion to Islam among the Jews of Early ʿAbbāsid Iraq
- 4 Onomastics, the Cairo Geniza, and Jewish Exceptionalism
- 5 The Early Vulgar Judeo-Arabic Spelling (EPJAS) and Westward Movement
- 6 The Development of Jewish and Islamic Commercial Law in the Early Islamic Centuries
- 7 Migratory Movements throughout the Islamic Mediterranean in the Early Islamic Centuries
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In this chapter, I look at the development of Jewish and Islamic commercial law over the early Islamic centuries to argue that the Islamic "commercial revolution" may be found in the eleventh rather than the eighth century. I argue, therefore, that any migration of Jews westward in the early Islamic centuries was not the result of such a commercial revolution.
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- The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near EastTracing the Demographic Shift from East to West, pp. 183 - 235Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022