Chapter 2 The Origins of Sephardic Jewry in the Medieval Arab World

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Part I Sephardic Jewry in the Middle Ages Origins, Development, and Flowering
5. Chapter 1 A Global Perspective on Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry An Introductory Essay 1
6. Chapter 2 The Origins of Sephardic Jewry in the Medieval Arab World 23
7. Chapter 3 The Judeo-Arabic Heritage 40
8. Chapter 4 Judeo-Spanish Culture in Medieval and Modern Times 55
9. Chapter 5 Literatures of Medieval Sepharad 77
10. Chapter 6 Medieval Sephardic-Oriental Jewish Bible Exegesis: The Contributions of Saadia Gaon and Abraham ibn Ezra 101
11. Chapter 7 Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah in Spain 120
12. Part II From Expulsion to the Modern Era: Exile, Decline, and Revival
13. Chapter 8 Hispanic Culture in Exile: Sephardic Life in the Ottoman Balkans 143
14. Chapter 9 Sephardic Jurisprudence in the Recent Half-Millennium 167
15. Chapter 10 Safed Kabbalah and the Sephardic Heritage 196
16. Chapter 11 Jewish Women in the Ottoman Empire 216
17. Part III Sephardic Jewry in the Modern Era and Special Topics
18. Chapter 12 Early Modern Sephardim and Blacks Contact and Conflict between Two Minorities 237
19. Chapter 13 Diversity and Uniqueness An Introduction to Sephardic Liturgical Music 259
20. Chapter 14 A Double Occlusion Sephardim and the Holocaust 285
21. Chapter 15 Sephardim and Oriental Jews in Israel Rethinking the Sociopolitical Paradigm 300
22. About the Contributors 329
23. Index 333