Coming of age in medieval Egypt: female adolescence, Jewish law, and ordinary culture

Author
Krakowski, Eve
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2018
Language
English
Call Number
DS135.E4 K63 2018
ISBN
978-0-691-17498-3
Reference Only
Off
Number of Pages
350
Library of Congress Subject Heading
Jewish women -- Egypt -- Social conditions -- To 1500
Library of Congress Subject Heading 2
Cairo Genizah
Abstract

Much of what we know about life in the medieval Islamic Middle East comes from texts written to impart religious ideals or to chronicle the movements of great men. How did women participate in the societies these texts describe? What about non-Muslims, whose own religious traditions descended partly from pre-Islamic late antiquity?