The Use of Jewish Legal Sources to Tell Islamic Economic History

by Phillip I. Lieberman (Vanderbilt University)

Tuesday 15 Nov 2022, 19:00 → 21:00 Europe/Berlin

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Phil Lieberman is Associate Professor and Chair of Classical and Mediterranean Studies, and Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Law at Vanderbilt University. He is a social, economic, and legal historian of the Jews of the medieval Islamic world. His 2014 book, The Business of Identity: Jews, Muslims, and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt (Stanford University Press) was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. He served as editor of the Cambridge History of Judaism, volume 5: Jews in the Medieval Islamic World (2021). His most recent book is The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East (Cambridge University Press).