Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. One. The Role of Oral Transmission for Astronomy Among Romaniot Jews 10
6. Two. Rabbi Yedidyah Rakh on Ezekiel’s “I Heard” 29
7. Three. Gradations of Light and Pairs of Opposites 47
8. Four. Cryptography in the Late Medieval Middle East 67
9. Five. Remembering, Knowing, Imagining 85
10. Six. Riccoldo da Montecroce’s Epistolae V commentatoriae de perditione Acconis, 1291 as Evidence of Multifaceted Textual Movement in the Eastern Mediterranean 101
11. Seven. The Wheat and the Barley 116
12. Eight. Shiite Underground Literature Between Iraq and Syria 128
13. Nine. Medieval Hebrew Uroscopic Texts 162
14. Ten. The Transmission of Sephardic Scientific Works in Italy 198
15. Eleven. New Medicine and the Ḥikmet- i Ṭabīʿiyye Problematic in Eighteenth- Century Istanbul 222
16. Contributors 243
17. Index of Manuscripts Cited 245
18. Index 247