History 598H: Senior Honors Colloquium – Jewish Communities under Islamic Rule Spring 2010, Course number 26710

(CELL PHONES MUST BE TURNED OFF DURING CLASS. NO TEXTING, EITHER.)PLEASE READ THIS SYLLABUS CAREFULLY AND KEEP IT WITH YOU!!

Professor Jane Hathaway Office: Dulles Hall 339A, 230 W. 17th Ave. Phone: 292-7138 E-mail: hathawayj@hotmail.com Office hours: T 12:30-1:30 and by appointment

Class meeting: T 10:30-12:18, Dulles Hall 168

All students must be officially enrolled in the course by the end of the second full week of the quarter (April 9). No requests to add the course will be approved by the department chair after that time. Enrolling officially and on time is solely the responsibility of the student.

This course fulfills the GEC Historical Study requirement and the 598 requirement toward a history major.

GEC Historical Study objectives: History courses develop students’ knowledge of how past events influence today’s society and help them understand how human beings view themselves.(1) Students acquire a perspective on history and an understanding of the factors that shapehuman activity.(2) Students display knowledge about the origins and nature of contemporary issues and developa foundation for future comparative understanding.(3) Students think, speak, and write critically about primary and secondary historical sources by examining diverse interpretations of past events and ideas in their historical contexts.

Objectives specific to this course: A major goal of the course is to hone the skills of history majors in historical writing through the exercise of preparing a research paper, using both primary and secondary sources, on a topic related to the course. In addition, students will benefit from peer and instructor critique of their paper proposals and drafts, and will hone their oral presentation skills by presenting their research proposals and papers to their classmates. Regarding the topic of the course, students will acquire familiarity with basic Muslim legal positions on the treatment of religious minorities, as well as with the varying status of Jews in Muslim societies over a 1200-year period.

Required texts (available at SBX):Bernard Lewis, The Jews of Islam (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984)Mary Lynn Rampolla, A Pocket Guide to Writing in History, 6th ed. (Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2007)Other readings are available on the Carmen course page (www.carmen.osu.edu).

Course description: This is a capstone course in historical analysis and writing for senior honors history majors. The subject of the course is Jewish communities who lived within societies in which the religion of the majority population and of the state was Islam. The chronological scope of the course ranges from the advent of Islam, ca. 610 C.E. (“Common Era,”

synonymous with but lacking the spiritual baggage of A.D.) through ca. 1800. The geographic scope stretches from Spain to Iran – i.e., roughly the region known today as the Middle East and North Africa.

Format of the course: Except for April 27 and June 1, I will spend the first half of class providing background on the topic of the week. The second half will be devoted to discussion, for which your reactions to the “Issues” questions will provide fodder, at least on April 13, April 20, May 4, May 11, May 18, and May 25. On each of these dates, two of you will be asked to lead the discussion. You will need to collaborate in advance to come up with points or questions for discussion. These points may be amplifications of the “Issues,” problematic or bizarre features you identify in the readings, comparisons between a figure or movement covered that week and one covered in a previous week, etc.

Written assignments:(1) A one-page description of a primary source for the study of Jews under Islamic rule, due in class April 6.(2) Six reactions of one or two paragraphs each to the “Issues” questions listed for April 13, April 20, May 4, May 11, May 18, and May 25. (These will be graded S/U). (3) A book review of about 5 pages on a secondary source related to the course (and preferably to the student’s term paper) but not included in the assigned course readings, due April 27. The book review assignment can be found on pp. 7-8 of this syllabus.(4) A two- to three-page proposal for the research paper, including a description of the topic, the major issues to be addressed, and a representative bibliography, due May 18 (see middle of p. 10 of this syllabus).(5) A research paper of 12-15 pages on a topic related to the course, due June 10. The paper assignment can be found on pp. 8-10 of this syllabus.

Late work: All assignments are due on the dates specified in this syllabus. Late work will be downgraded one letter grade for each day it is late. Work that is four or more days late will not be accepted. I do not give incompletes. If you are unable to complete the quarter’s work on schedule, be prepared to turn in what you have accomplished or accept an “E”. Exceptions to this policy will be made only in dire circumstances (e.g., serious illness, death in the family), which must be documented.

Academic misconduct. Plagiarism is presenting the published or unpublished work of anyone other than yourself as your own. It includes copying all or part of any written assignment from a published book or article, from the Web, or from a published or unpublished paper composed by another student without attribution. Plagiarism will result in a hearing by the Committee on Academic Misconduct (COAM). If you have questions about proper attribution of source material for any written assignment, please consult me. For additional information on academic misconduct, see the Code of Student Conduct (http://studentaffairs.osu.edu/info_for_students/ csc.asp ) .

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Grading:attendance and participation, including helping to lead 2 discussions 15%primary source description 5%reactions to readings 20% book review 25%paper proposal 5%final paper and presentation 30%

Final grade distribution:92.6-100% A 77.6-79.5 C+ below 60% E89.6-92.5% A- 72.6-77.5% C87.6-89.5% B+ 69.6-72.5% C-82.6-87.5% B 67.6-69.5% D+79.6-82.5 % B- 60-67.5% D

USEFUL CONTACT INFORMATION

Melton Center for Jewish Studies: http://meltoncenter.osu.edu 306 Dulles Hall, 230 W. 17th Ave. 292-0967

OSU Hillel: www.osuhillel.org 46 E. 16th Ave. 294-4797

Hebraica and Jewish Studies Library: http://library.osu.edu/sites/jdc/jdc.php Thompson Library, 3rd floor IMPORTANT NOTE: This Web site provides access to the Encyclopedia Judaica, 2nd ed. Jewish studies reference works can be found in the 3rd floor stacks at Thompson Library. Chief librarian: Dr. Joseph (Yossi) Galron, galron.1@osu.edu; asst. librarian: Mr. William L. Young, young.33@osu.edu

Middle East Studies Library: http://library.osu.edu/sites/mes IMPORTANT NOTE: This Web site provides access to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed., as well as other references. Middle Eastern reference works can be found in the 3rd floor stacks at Thompson Library. Chief librarians: Dr. Ali Hassan, hassan.87@osu.edu (Arabic/Islamic studies), Dr. Dona Straley, straley.1@osu.edu (Persian and Turkish); asst. librarian: Mr. Patrick Visel, visel.1@osu.edu

The Writing Center: http://cstw.osu.edu/writingCenter 485 Mendenhall Lab, 125 South Oval Mall 688-4291

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SCHEDULE

March 30 (1) Introduction to the course (2) A brief survey of the history of Jews under Islamic rule until 1800Reading: Lewis, pp. x-xiiStudents observing Passover are excused but should read the assigned material and study the Power Point presentation on the Carmen course page.

April 6 (1) Primary sources for the study of Jews under Islamic rule (2) Approaches to the study of Jews under Islamic ruleBRING TO CLASS: A one-page description of a primary source on this topic. Reading:Lewis, pp. 113-19Rampolla, pp. 1-24Mark R. Cohen, “The Jews under Islam: From the Rise of Islam to Sabbatai Zevi,” in Bibliographical Essays in Medieval Jewish Studies (New York, 1976); reprinted with a supplement as Princeton Near East Paper No. 32 (1981) (Carmen)Tikkun Debate: Mark R. Cohen, “The Neo-Lachrymose Conception of Jewish-Arab History,” and Norman A. Stillman, “Myth, Countermyth, and Distortion,” Tikkun May-June 1991, pp. 55-64 (Carmen)

April 13 The early Muslim community and the Jews: The “Constitution” of Medina, the Pact of UmarReading:Lewis, pp. 3-66Rampolla, pp. 25-29 (Stop at 3.b-2)“Constitution” of Medina and Pact of Umar in Norman A. Stillman, ed. and trans., The Jews of Arab Lands: A History and Source Book (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1979), pp. 115-18, 157-58 Moshe Gil, “The ‘Constitution of Medina’: A Reconsideration,” Israel Oriental Studies 4 (1974): 44-66Issues: What was the position of the Jews in the community of Medina? What restrictions did the Pact of Umar impose? What questions of authenticity surround the Pact of Umar?REACTION due in Carmen drop box by midnight April 12

April 20 Jewish community leadership in the “classical” age of Islam: The exilarchate and the gaonate; Saadya Gaon; the KaraitesReading:Lewis, pp. 67-92Stillman, Jews of Arab Lands, pp. 29-34Saadya Gaon, Book of Doctrines and Beliefs, ed. and trans. Alexander Altmann, in Hans Lewy, Alexander Altmann, and Isaak Heinemann, eds. and trans., Three Jewish Philosophers: Philo,

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Saadya Gaon, Jehuda Halevi (New York: Atheneum, 1985), pp. 11-22 (Translator’s Introduction), 58-73 A. Harkavy, “Fragments of Anti-Karaite Writings of Saadiah in the Imperial Public Library at St. Petersburg,” Jewish Quarterly Review 13/4 (1901): 665-68 (You are not required to read the Judeo-Arabic texts.)Leon Nemoy, ed. and trans., A Karaite Anthology (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1952), pp. 3-11, 16-18, 30-31, 34-39, 42-53Issues: What influences do Saadya’s metaphysical writings reveal? What are his main points of contention with the Karaites?REACTION due in Carmen drop box by midnight April 19

April 27 Presentation on the Jewish Studies and Middle Eastern Studies reference collectionsRead Rampolla, pp. 31-33, and skim chapters 4 (on writing a history paper) and 6 (on plagiarism). You will probably be glad you did.BOOK REVIEW DUE

May 4 Jews in the medieval Mediterranean: The evidence of the Cairo GenizaReading:Lewis, pp. 92-106S.D. Goitein, A Mediterranean Society, vol. 1 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967), pp. 1-28_____, ed. and trans., Letters of Medieval Jewish Traders (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973), pp. 34-39, 65-71Mark R. Cohen, “Four Judaeo-Arabic Petitions of the Poor from the Cairo Geniza,” Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 24 (2000): 446-65Visit the Web site of Cambridge University Library’s Taylor-Schechter Geniza Research Unit: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Taylor-Schechter/.Other Geniza-related web sites:Friedberg Genizah Project: www.genizah.orgPrinceton University Geniza Project: www.princeton.edu/~geniza/Issues: What is the range of material included in the Cairo Geniza? How can this material be used?REACTION due in Carmen drop box by midnight May 3

May 11 Jews in “Golden Age” Spain; MaimonidesJane S. Gerber, The Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience (New York: Free Press, 1992), pp. 60-89Abraham ibn Daud, “Samuel and Joseph ibn Naghrela,” in Stillman, Jews of Arab Lands, pp. 211-13Abu Ishaq of Elvira, “A Poetical Attack on the Jews of Granada,” in Stillman, Jews of Arab Lands, pp. 214-16Sultan Abdallah of Granada, “The Fall of the Jewish Vizier of Granada,” in Stillman, Jews of Arab Lands, pp. 217-25

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Ibn al-Qifti, “Musa ibn Maymun [Maimonides],” in Bernard Lewis, ed. and trans., Islam from the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople, vol. 2 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987 [1974]), pp. 189-92Issue: How does Gerber portray Spain in the 10th and 11th centuries? How does she portray Maimonides? What different perspectives do the primary sources bring to the murder of Joseph ibn Naghrela and its aftermath, and to Maimonides?REACTION due in Carmen drop box by midnight May 10

May 18 Jews in the Ottoman Empire I: Mysticism in SafedReading:Lewis, pp. 107-middle of 137Solomon Schechter, “Safed in the 16th Century: A City of Legists and Mystics,” in Judah Goldin, ed., The Jewish Expression (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1976), pp. 258-307 David dei Rossi, “An Italian Jew Describes the Revival of Safed under the Ottomans,” in Stillman, Jews of Arab Lands, pp. 290-92Amnon Cohen and Bernard Lewis, Population and Revenue in the Towns of Palestine in the 16th Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978), pp. 155-69 Issues: How does Schechter portray Jewish mystical activity in 16th-century Safed? What do Dei Rossi’s letter and the sources studied by Cohen and Lewis add to this picture? REACTION due in Carmen drop box by midnight May 17PAPER PROPOSAL DUE in Carmen drop box by 10:00 a.m. May 18, or in class

May 25 Jews in the Ottoman Empire II: The 17th-century crisis and Sabbatai Sevi’s movementReading:Lewis, middle of p. 137- p. 153Marc David Baer, “The Great Fire of 1660 and the Islamization of Christian and Jewish Space in Istanbul,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 36 (2004): 159-75Encyclopedia Judaica, s.v. “Shabbetai Zevi,” by Gershom Scholem (pp. 340-55)Paul Rycaut (1628-1700), continuator, The Turkish History, Comprehending the Origin of that Nation and the Growth of the Ottoman Empire, continuation of Richard Knolles, abridged by Mr. Savage, vol. 2 (London: Isaac Cleave, Abel Roper, Richard Basset, 1701), pp. 164-67Issues: How did the 17th-century crisis affect the Jews of Istanbul? What is Rycaut’s view of Sabbatai Sevi, and how does it compare to Scholem’s description of his movement?REACTION due in Carmen drop box by midnight May 24

June 1 Presentation of papersReading: Rampolla, chapters 4 (review), 6, 7

June 7 (Monday), 9:30 a.m. (time scheduled for final) Presentation of papers (if necessary)

June 10 (Thursday) PAPERS DUE NO LATER THAN 5:00 p.m.BOOK REVIEW

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Your book review should treat a secondary source, that is, a non-fictional work on some feature of the Jewish experience under Islamic rule. Examine the “Suggested References,” pp. 11-17 of this syllabus, for ideas as to topics and authors.

Read your book actively. Find out as much as you can about the author (without, of course, undertaking a separate research project). You may find it helpful to outline the chapters of your book, or at least to jot down a summary of the main points of each chapter as you read. Ask yourself what features of the author’s background, discipline, and professional experience affect his/her attitude and approach; footnotes, bibliography, and acknowledgments often provide keys to this question. Read the preface and/or introduction (if either of these features is present) to find out what the author intends to accomplish in his/her study. Is s/he investigating a previously unknown or ignored incident or phenomenon? Is s/he examining a previously untapped source that will shed new light on a particular incident or phenomenon? Is s/he putting forth a revisionist interpretation of a particular incident or phenomenon? Or is s/he synthesizing information from previous studies into a seamless, inclusive narrative of a particular incident or series of incidents?

There is no set order of composition or checklist of contents for a good book review. Professional reviewers emphasize different features in each book they review. You may find that the book you have chosen lends itself to a particular style of review; you may wish to devote more or less space to giving an idea of the book’s contents, and more or less space to evaluating the effectiveness of the author’s approach and appraising his/her scholarly contribution. As a general rule of thumb, though, your review should answer the following questions, not necessarily in this order:

(1) Who is the author, and what are his/her field of expertise and affiliation?

(2) What are his/her approach to the subject and his/her intent in writing this book? (See the second paragraph, above.) Does s/he accomplish this goal?

(3) What topics does the book cover? Does it cover them completely, or is there information or perspectives that the author neglects to include? Is the author’s treatment, on the other hand, tedious and/or overly detailed?

(4) Does the book unfold in an intellectually satisfying manner? Could it be organized more effectively?

(5) Does the book contain such aids to the reader as photographs, maps, a glossary, detailed yet comprehensible foot- or endnotes, a detailed bibliography and index?

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(6) Are there flaws in the author’s writing style or in the book’s copyediting? To assess copyediting, look for typographical errors, gaps in footnote citations, inconsistent spellings of foreign or technical terms, etc.

(7) Have you read other works on the same or a similar subject? If so, how does this work compare to or complement these other works? If you are unfamiliar with the subject of your book, you may find it helpful to consult reviews of the book in scholarly publications. You can locate reviews of books published after 1965 with the electronic resource Book Review Index Plus. Go to the OSU Libraries home page (www.library.osu.edu) and do a Title search for “book review index plus.” If you use other reviews to help shape your own comments on the book, you must list these reviews in a brief bibliography specifying the date and source of each review.

See also Rampolla, pp. 31-33 and chapter 4.

Your book review should be about five double-spaced, typed pages, using a 12-point font and normal margins. Please do not try to manipulate the length of your paper by using abnormally large or small type or margins.

Your book review is due in the Carmen drop box or as an e-mail attachment no later than 10:00 a.m. April 27. You may also turn in a hard copy in class on the same day. Feel free to e-mail me with ideas, problems, or rough drafts. I prefer Word (.doc or .docx) attachments.

RESEARCH PAPER

You will write a paper of 12-15 pages on a topic related to the course (i.e., Jewish communities under Muslim rule before 1800 C.E.). Your paper should not be simply a description of an historical figure or a phenomenon but should emphasize certain features of the phenomenon or of the figure’s life or work, take a new approach to the topic, or make a particular argument regarding the topic.

For example, if you choose to write a paper about Maimonides, you might focus on (a) the extent to which he was influenced by Muslim philosophers, (b) his medical career, OR (c) his role as a Jewish community leader. You might also focus on one of his written works.

In preparing your paper, you should make use of both primary and secondary sources. For example, if you are writing on Jewish merchants in medieval Egypt, you might want to use both S.D. Goitein's A Mediterranean Society (secondary) and his collection of edited and translated letters, Letters of Medieval Jewish Traders (primary).

FORMAT

(1) Your paper should consist of coherent paragraphs, each beginning with a thesis sentence.

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Point out in the first paragraph or two what feature(s) of your topic you are emphasizing, what new angle you are going to take, or what new argument you are going to make (as applicable). In succeeding paragraphs, expand on these features, explain your new angle, or build your argument. Sum up your points and/or clinch your case in a concluding paragraph or two.

(2) Quotations: Do not quote from your sources simply for the sake of quoting. Choose the passages you quote, if any, carefully, and position them in your paper so that they clearly support the points you are making without interrupting the flow of your argument. When citing a secondary source, it is usually better to paraphrase than to quote. You are strongly encouraged to read Rampolla, pp. 96-100, 102-03, on the use of quotations.

TECHNICAL NOTES

(1) PLEASE NUMBER YOUR PAGES.

(2) Give your paper a title reflecting your topic.

(3) When citing your sources, use a consistent footnote (or endnote) and bibliographical form. Check the notes and bibliographies of the secondary works you use for examples, or use the Suggested References on pp. 11-20 of this syllabus (they are in footnote/endnote form) as a guide. See also Rampolla, pp. 104-37. Generic examples are as follows:1ST CITATION IN A FOOTNOTE OR ENDNOTE: 1S.D. Goitein, A Mediterranean Society, vol. I: Economic Foundations (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967), pp. 29-32.FOLLOWING CITATIONS IN A FOOTNOTE OR ENDNOTE: 2Goitein, Mediterranean Society, vol. I, pp. 46-48 [or I: 46-48].IN-TEXT CITATION:The Jewish overseas merchant Nahray ibn Nissim, who was active in Cairo between 1045 and 1096, traded in at least fifteen different commodities (Goitein 1967, 153-54). If you use in-text citations, you MUST include a list of works cited at the end of your paper. In such a list, a source is given this way:Goitein, S.D. 1967. A Mediterranean Society. Vol. 1: Economic Foundations. Berkeley:

University of California Press.

CITATION IN BIBLIOGRAPHY:Goitein, S.D. A Mediterranean Society. 6 vols. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967,

1971, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1991.Goitein, S.D., ed. and trans. Letters of Medieval Jewish Traders. Princeton: Princeton University

Press, 1973.Benjamin of Tudela. The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela, ed. and trans. Marcus Nathan Adler.

New York: P. Feldheim, 1966. [alphabetized under “B”]Book titles are italicized or underlined; journal and encyclopaedia articles are placed between quotation marks, as are titles of unpublished theses and dissertations.

ENCYCLOPAEDIA ARTICLES:Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed., s.v. ”Dhimmi,” by Bernard Lewis [if author is given]. Do not give volume or page number.NOTE: The Encyclopaedia of Islam is commonly abbreviated EI2 (for the 2nd edition) or EI1 (for the 1st edition, which is so ancient that few people use it any more). The Encyclopedia Judaica

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is commonly abbreviated EJ. You would use these abbreviations in the foot- or endnotes, after the first citation, when you would give the full title.

CITING A WEB PAGE: Please be cautious about using the Web for research, as a great deal of the information to be found on the Web is of questionable accuracy and may be biased. Try to avoid using Wikipedia. When citing a Web page, give the title, or an approximation of the title, of the piece or collection of information you accessed, along with the full URL and the date on which you accessed the site. If the author’s name is given, always cite it. If the material you accessed is reproduced from a print publication, provide the print publication data as well as the URL. For example:1ST CITATION IN A FOOTNOTE:

“Historical Information on the Topkapı Palace Museum,” www.ee.bilkent.edu.tr/ ~history/topkapi.html, accessed 3 May 2010. Reproduced from Ahmet Ertuğ, et al., Topkapı, the Palace of Felicity (Istanbul: Ertuğ and Kölük, 1989-91).FOLLOWING CITATIONS IN FOOTNOTES:

“Historical Information on the Topkapı Palace Museum,” www.ee.bilkent.edu.tr/ ~history/topkapi.html. CITATION IN BIBLIOGRAPHY:“Historical Information on the Topkapı Palace Museum.” www.ee.bilkent.edu.tr/~history/

topkapi.html. Accessed 3 May 2010. Reproduced from Ahmet Ertuğ, et al., Topkapı, the Palace of Felicity. Istanbul: Ertuğ and Kölük, 1989-91.

[This entry would appear in the bibliography under “H”.]

Your paper will be evaluated on the basis of how clearly you present your topic, how effectively you explain your approach or present your argument, and how effectively you exploit your primary and secondary sources.

Your paper should be 12-15 typed, double-spaced pages, using a 12-point font and normal margins. Please do not try to manipulate the length of your paper by using abnormally large or small type or margins.

RESEARCH PAPER PROPOSAL: A two- to three-page proposal for the research paper, including a description of the topic, the major issues to be addressed, and a representative bibliography, is due in the Carmen drop box or as an e-mail attachment no later than 10:00 a.m. May 18, or as a hard copy in class the same day.

RESEARCH PAPER DUE DATE: Your paper is due in the Carmen drop box or as an e-mail attachment no later than 5:00 p.m. Thursday, June 10. I prefer Word (.doc or .docx) attachments.

PRESENTATION: You will also prepare a 15-minute oral presentation of your research to present in class June 1 or June 7. You should not read from a script (though you may use notes) but should give a clear, articulate presentation of your topic, the sources you consulted, and your conclusions. Remember that your classmates are probably not familiar with your topic. Be creative in the way you convey it to them. Visual aids are acceptable, as are Power-Point presentations.

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SUGGESTED REFERENCES

GENERAL REFERENCE ON ISLAMIC AND JEWISH HISTORY (Do not use for book reviews.)W.D. Davies and Louis Finkelstein, eds., The Cambridge History of Judaism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984- )Encyclopaedia Iranica The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1st ed. (EI1), 2nd ed. (EI2) Encyclopedia Judaica (EJ)Cyril Glassé, The Concise Encyclopedia of Islam (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1989)Dilip Hiro, A Dictionary of the Middle East (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998)P.M. Holt, et al., eds., The Cambridge History of Islam (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970, 1977)Joseph R. Strayer, ed., Dictionary of the Middle Ages (New York: Scribner, 1982)

BASIC ISLAMIC HISTORY AND INSTITUTIONS (Do not use for book reviews.)Frederick M. Denny, An Introduction to Islam, 3rd ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/ Prentice Hall, 2006 [1994])H.A.R. Gibb, Mohammedanism (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1953) - a useful short handbook, but very old-school S.D. Goitein, Studies in Islamic History and Institutions (Leiden: Brill, 1966)Marshall G.S. Hodgson, The Venture of Islam, 3 vols. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974)Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples (New York: Warner Books, 1991)Ira Lapidus, A History of Islamic Societies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988)Richard C. Martin, Islam: A Cultural Perspective (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1982)_____, Islamic Studies: A History of Religions Approach, 2nd ed. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1996)Neal Robinson, Islam: A Concise Introduction (Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000)Annemarie Schimmel, Islam: An Introduction, trans. from the German (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992)

SECONDARY SOURCES ON JEWS UNDER ISLAMIC RULE General

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Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, The Exiled and the Redeemed, trans. Isaac A. Abbady, 2nd ed. (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1961)Sheldon R. Brunswick, ed., Studies in Judaica, Karaitica, and Islamica: Presented to Leon Nemoy on His Eightieth Birthday (Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1982)Mark R. Cohen, “Islam and the Jews: Myth, Counter-Myth, History,” Jerusalem Quarterly 38 (1986): 125-37_____, Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994)Louis Finkelstein, ed., The Jews: Their History, Culture, and Religion, 3rd ed. (New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1960)Benjamin R. Gampel, ed., Crisis and Creativity in the Sephardic World, 1391-1648 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997)S.D. Goitein, Jews and Arabs: Their Contacts through the Ages (New York: Schocken Books, 1974)Cecil Roth, A History of the Jews (New York: Schocken Books, 1964)David Solomon Sassoon, A History of the Jews of Baghdad (Letchworth: Solomon D. Sassoon, 1949)Yedida K. Stillman and Norman A. Stillman, eds., From Iberia to Diaspora: Studies in Sephardic History and Culture (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 1999)

In the original Muslim communityBarakat Ahmad, Muhammad and the Jews: A Re-examination (New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1979)Mark R. Cohen, “What Was the Pact of Umar? A Literary-Historical Study,” Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 23 (1999): 100-31Michael Lecker, Jews and Arabs in Pre- and Early Islamic Arabia (London: Variorum, 1998) – collected studiesA.S. Tritton, The Caliphs and Their Non-Muslim Subjects: A Critical Study of the Covenant of Umar (London: Frank Cass, 1930, repr. 1970)On the “Constitution” of MedinaSaid Amir Arjomand, “The Constitution of Medina: A Sociolegal Interpretation of Muhammad’s Acts of Foundation of the Umma,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 41 (2009): 555- 75Uri Rubin, “The ‘Constitution of Medina’: Some Notes,” Studia Islamica 61-62 (1985)R.B. Serjeant, “The ‘Constitution of Medina’,” Islamic Quarterly 8/1-2 (1964)A.J. Wensinck, Muhammad and the Jews of Medina, with an Excursus: Muhammad’s Constitution of Medina, by Julius Wellhausen, ed. and trans. Wolfgang Behn (Freiburg: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1975) – translation of classic late 19th-early 20th-century scholarship on this topic

Abbasid-, Fatimid-, Ayyubid-, and Mamluk-era (including Geniza studies)Camilla Adang, “Medieval Muslim Polemics against the Jewish Scriptures,” in Jacques Waardenburg, ed., Muslim Perceptions of Other Religions: A Historical Survey (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 143-59_____, Muslim Writers on Judaism and the Hebrew Bible from Ibn Rabban to Ibn Hazm (Leiden: Brill, 1996)

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Elinoar Bareket, Fustat on the Nile: The Jewish Elite in Medieval Egypt (Leiden: Brill, 1999)Mark R. Cohen, Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt: The Origins of the Office of Head of the Jews, ca. 1065-1126 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980)Walter J. Fischel, Jews in the Economic and Political Life of Medieval Islam (London: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland; distributed by Luzac and Co., 1968)Daniel Frank, ed., The Jews of Medieval Islam: Community, Society, and Identity - Proceedings of an International Conference Held by the Institute of Jewish Studies, University College, London, 1992 (Leiden, New York: Brill, 1995)Moshe Gil, “The Radhanite Merchants and the Land of Radhan [Iraq-Iran],” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 17 (1974): 299-328S.D. Goitein, A Mediterranean Society, 6 vols. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967, 1971, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1991)Henry Malter, Saadiah Gaon: His Life and Works, 2nd ed. (New York: Hermon Press, 1969 [1926])Jacob Mann, The Collected Articles of Jacob Mann, 3 vols. (Gedera: M. Shalom, 1971)_____, The Jews in Egypt and Palestine under the Fatimid Caliphs: A Contribution to Their Political and Communal History Based Chiefly on Genizah Material Hitherto Unpublished, 2 vols., preface and reader’s guide by S.D. Goitein (New York: Ktav Publishing House, 1970)_____, The Responsa of the Babylonian Geonim as a Source of Jewish History (Tel Aviv: Zion, 1970)_____, Texts and Studies in Jewish History and Literature, 2 vols. (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1931-35; reprint with intro. by Gerson D. Cohen, New York: Ktav Publishing House, 1972)Stefan C. Reif, ed., with the assistance of Shulamit Reif, The Cambridge Genizah Collections: Their Contents and Significance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)Norman A. Stillman, “The Eleventh-Century Merchant House of Ibn Awkal (A Geniza Study),” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 16 (1973): 15-88Steven M. Wasserstrom, Between Muslim and Jew: The Problem of Symbiosis under Early Islam (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995)_____, “Heresiography of the Jews in Mamluk Times,” in Jacques Waardenburg, ed., Muslim Perceptions of Other Religions: A Historical Survey (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 160-80

KaraitesZvi Ankori, Karaites in Byzantium: The Formative Years, 970-1100 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1959)Philip Birnbaum, ed., Karaite Studies (New York: Hermon Press, 1971)Daniel Frank, “Karaite Ritual,” in Lawrence Fine, ed., Judaism in Practice: From the Middle Ages to the Present (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), pp. 248-64_____, “Search Scripture Well”: Karaite Exegetes and the Origins of the Jewish Bible Commentary in the Islamic East (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2004)_____, “The Study of Medieval Karaism, 1989-1999,” in Nicholas de Lange, ed., Hebrew Scholarship and the Medieval World (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 3-22

MaimonidesLawrence V. Berman, “Maimonides, the Disciple of Alfārābī,” Israel Oriental Studies 4 (1974):

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154-78Joseph A. Buijs, ed. and intro., Maimonides: A Collection of Critical Essays (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988)Robert S. Cohen and Hillel Levine, eds., Maimonides and the Sciences (Dordrecht, Germany, and Boston: Kluwer Academic, 2000)Herbert A. Davidson, Maimonides the Rationalist (Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2010)Lenn E. Goodman, Jewish and Islamic Philosophy: Crosspollinations in the Classic Age (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999)Jay M. Harris, ed., Maimonides after 800 Years: Essays on Maimonides and His Influence (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies, distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007)Lawrence Kaplan, “Maimonides’ Laws of the Study of Torah,” in Lawrence Fine, ed., Judaism in Practice: From the Middle Ages to the Present (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), pp. 171-85Menachem Kellner, Maimonides’ Confrontation with Mysticism (Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2006)Joel L. Kraemer, “The Life of Moses ben Maimon,” in Lawrence Fine, ed., Judaism in Practice: From the Middle Ages to the Present (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), pp. 413- 28_____, Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization’s Greatest Minds (New York: Doubleday, 2008)_____, ed., Perspectives on Maimonides: Philosophical and Historical Studies (Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1991)Howard Kreisel, Maimonides’ Political Thought: Studies in Ethics, Law, and the Human Ideal (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999)T.M. Rudavsky, Maimonides (Chichester, West Sussex, U.K.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)Sarah Stroumsa, Maimonides in His World: Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009)Isidore Twersky, ed., Studies in Maimonides (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies, distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007)David Yellin and Israel Abrahams, Maimonides: His Life and Works (New York: Hermon Press, 1972)

Mysticism and messianism, including Sabbatai SeviRachel Elior, Jewish Mysticism: The Infinite Expression of Freedom, trans. Yudith Nave and Arthur B. MIllman (Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2007)Lawrence Fine, “Benevolent Spirit Possession in 16th-Century Safed,” in Matt Goldish, ed., Spirit Possession in Judaism: Cases and Contexts from the Middle Ages to the Present (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003), pp. 101-22_____, Physician of the Soul, Healer of the Cosmos: Isaac Luria and His Kabbalistic Fellowship (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003)_____, “Pietistic Customs from Safed,” in Lawrence Fine, ed., Judaism in Practice: From the Middle Ages to the Present (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), pp. 375-85_____, ed., Essential Papers on Kabbalah (New York: New York University Press, 1995)Matt Goldish, “The Early Messianic Career of Shabbatai Zvi,” in Lawrence Fine, ed., Judaism in

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Practice: From the Middle Ages to the Present (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), pp. 470-82_____, The Sabbatean Prophets (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004) _____, “Vision and Possession: Nathan of Gaza’s Earliest Prophecies in Historical Context,” in Matt Goldish, ed., Spirit Possession in Judaism: Cases and Contexts from the Middle Ages to the Present (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003), pp. 217-36Jane Hathaway, “The Grand Vizier and the False Messiah: The Sabbatai Sevi Controversy and the Ottoman Reform in Egypt,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 117/ 4 (1997): 665- 71_____, “The Mawzac Exile [1679, Sabbatai Sevi-related] at the Juncture of Zaydi and Ottoman Messianism,” Association for Jewish Studies Review 29/1 (2005): 111-28Moshe Idel, Messianic Mystics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998)Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman, “Jewish and Muslim Messianism in Yemen,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 22 (1990): 201-28Ada Rapoport-Albert, Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi, 1666-1816, trans. Deborah Greniman (Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2010)Marc Saperstein, ed., Essential Papers on Messianic Movements and Personalities in Jewish History (New York: New York University Press, 1992)Gerson Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, 3rd rev. ed. (New York: Schocken Books, 1961 [1954, 1946])_____, Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626-1676, trans. R.J. Zwi Werblowsky (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973)R.J. Zwi Werblowsky, Joseph Karo, Lawyer and Mystic (London: Oxford University Press, 1962)

SpainEsperanza Alfonso, Islamic Culture through Jewish Eyes: Al-Andalus from the 10th to 12th Century (London: Routledge, 2007)Yom Tov Assis, The Golden Age of Aragonese Jewry: Community and Society in the Crown of Aragon, 1213-1327(Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1997)Eliyahu Ashtor, The Jews of Moslem Spain, trans. Aaron Klein and Jenny Machlowitz Klein, 3 vols. (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1973); 2 vols. (Philadelphia: JPS, 1992)Salo W. Baron, A Social and Religious History of the Jews, 18 vols. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1952-83), vols. 3-8, 17Haim Beinart, The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain, trans. Jeffrey M. Green (Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2001)_____, ed., Moreshet Sepharad: The Sephardi Legacy (Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, the Hebrew University, 1992)Miriam Bodian, Dying in the Law of Moses: Crypto-Jewish Martyrdom in the Iberian World (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007)Paloma Díaz-Mas, Sephardim: The Jews from Spain, ed. and trans. George K. Zucker (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992)Elie Kedourie, ed., Spain and the Jews: The Sephardi Experience, 1492 and After (London: Thames and Hudson, 1992)Renée Levine Melammed, “Life-Cycle Rituals of Spanish Crypto-Jewish Women,” in Lawrence

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Fine, ed., Judaism in Practice: From the Middle Ages to the Present (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), pp. 143-54_____, “Visionary Experiences among Spanish Crypto-Jewish Women,” in Fine, ed., Judaism in Practice, pp. 348-52Mark D. Meyerson and Edward D. English, eds., Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Spain: Interaction and Cultural Change (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1999)B[enzion] Netanyahu, The Marranos [crypto-Jews] of Spain from the Late 14th to the Early 16th

Century (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999)David Nirenberg, Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996)Cecil Roth, A History of the Marranos (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1947; reprint New York: Arno Press, 1975)Marc Saperstein, “Jewish Preaching in 15th-Century Spain,” in Lawrence Fine, ed., Judaism in Practice: From the Middle Ages to the Present (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), pp. 325-39

North Africa (and Africa in general)André N. Chouraqui, Between East and West: A History of the Jews of North Africa, trans. Michael M. Bernet (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1968)David Corcos, Studies in the History of the Jews of Morocco, intro. by Eliyahu Ashtor (Jerusalem: Rubin Mass, 1976)Jane Gerber, Jewish Society in Fez, 1450-1700: Studies in Communal and Economic Life (Leiden: Brill 1980)H.Z. Hirschberg, A History of the Jews in North Africa, trans. from the Hebrew, 2 vols., 2nd rev. ed. (Leiden: Brill, 1974)Richard Hull, Jews and Judaism in African History (Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2009)John Hunwick, ed. and trans., Jews of a Saharan Oasis (Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2009)

Yemen (see also “Mysticism and messianism”)Reuben Ahroni, Yemenite Jewry: Origins, Culture, and Literature (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986)Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman, The Jews of Yemen in the 19th Century: A Portrait of a Messianic Community (Leiden: Brill, 1993)Joseph (Yosef) Tobi, The Jews of Yemen: Studies in Their History and Culture (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 1999)Mark S. Wagner, Like Joseph in Beauty: Yemeni Vernacular Poetry and Arab-Jewish Symbiosis (Leiden: Brill, 2008)

Ottoman lands (excluding North Africa) (see also “Mysticism and messianism”)Marc D. Angel, The Jews of Rhodes: The History of a Sephardi Community (New York: Sepher-Hermon Press and the Union of Sephardic Congregations, 1978)Zvi Ankori, “From Zudeha to Yahudi Mahallesi: The Jewish Quarter of Candia [Crete] in the 17th Century,” in Saul Lieberman and Arthur Hyman, eds., Salo W. Baron Jubilee

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Volume on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday (Jerusalem: American Academy for Jewish Research; distributed by Columbia University Press, New York, 1975), vol. 1, pp. 63-127Marc David Baer, The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009)_____, Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007)Esther Benbassa and Aron Rodrigue, Sephardi Jewry: A History of the Judeo-Spanish Community, 14th-20th Centuries (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993, 1995)Benjamin Braude and Bernard Lewis, eds., Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire, 2 vols. (New York: Holms and Meier, 1982)Amnon Cohen, Jewish Life under Islam: Jerusalem in the 16th Century (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984)_____, A World Within: Jewish Life as Reflected in Muslim Court Documents from the Sijill [Muslim court records] of Jerusalem (16th Century) (Philadelphia: Center for Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1994)_____ and Bernard Lewis, Population and Revenue in the Towns of Palestine in the 16th Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978)Mark Epstein, The Ottoman Jewish Communities and Their Role in the 15th and 16th Centuries (Freiburg: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1980)Morris Goodblatt, Jewish Life in Turkey in the 16th Century, As Reflected in the Legal Writings of Samuel de Medina (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1952)Ruth Lamdan, A Separate People: Jewish Women in Palestine, Syria, and Egypt in the 16th Century (Leiden: Brill, 2000)Avigdor Levy, ed., The Jews of the Ottoman Empire (Princeton: Darwin Press, 1994)_____, ed., Jews, Turks, Ottomans: A Shared History, 15th through the 20th Century (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2002)Bruce Masters, Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Arab World: The Roots of Sectarianism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)Minna Rozen, A History of the Jewish Community in Istanbul: The Formative Years, 1453-1566 (Leiden: Brill, 2002)_____, Jewish Identity and Society in the 17th Century: Reflections on the Life and Work of Refael Mordekhai Malki, trans. Goldie Wachsman (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1992)Aron Rodrigue, ed., Ottoman and Turkish Jewry: Community and Leadership (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992)Cecil Roth, The House of Nasi: Doña Gracia (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1948)_____, The House of Nasi: The Duke of Naxos (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1948, 1992)Stanford J. Shaw, The Jews of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic (New York: New York University Press, 1991)Aryeh Shmuelevitz, The Jews of the Ottoman Empire in the Late 15th and 16th Centuries (Leiden: Brill, 1984)

“Crypto-Jews” in New Mexico and the CaribbeanJosette Capriles Goldish, Once Jews: Stories of Caribbean Sephardim (Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2009)

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Stanley M. Hordes, To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008)Seth D. Kunin, Identity and Authenticity among the Crypto-Jews (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009)

PRIMARY SOURCES ON JEWS UNDER ISLAMIC RULE GeneralIsrael Abrahams, ed. and trans., Hebrew Ethical Wills (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1926), esp. Part 1Elkan Nathan Adler, ed. and trans., Jewish Travellers: A Treasury of Travelogues from Nine Centuries, 2nd ed., with intro. by Cecil Roth (New York: Hermon Press, 1966 [1930])Bat Ye’or, ed. and trans., The Dhimmi, trans. David Maise, et al., revised ed. (Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1985) Franz Kobler, ed. and trans., Letters of Jews through the Ages: From Biblical Times to the Middle of the 18th Century, 2 vols. (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1978)

Early IslamRobert G. Hoyland, Seeing Islam as Others Saw It: A Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 1997)

Medieval, including GenizaMoshe Gil, ed. and trans., Documents of the Jewish Pious Foundations from the Cairo Geniza (Leiden: Brill, 1976)Richard Gottheil and William H. Worrell, Fragments from the Cairo Genizah in the Freer Collection (New York, London: Macmillan, 1927)Jacob R. Marcus, ed. and trans., The Jew in the Medieval World: A Source-Book, 315-1791 (Cincinnati: Sinai Press, 1938, rev. ed. 1999; repr. New York: Atheneum, 1977) Sacadya Gaon (Baghdad, 882 or 92-942), Saadia’s Polemic against Hiwi al-Balkhi, ed. and trans. Israel Davidson (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1915)Solomon Schechter, ed. and trans., Saadyana: Geniza Fragments of Writings of R. Saadya Gaon and Others (Cambridge: Deighton and Bell, 1903)Joseph ben Meir Zabara (b. 1140?), The Book of Delight, trans. Moses Hadas (New York: Columbia University Press, 1932) - belles lettres

KaraitesAbraham Danon, “Documents Relating to the History of the Karaites in European Turkey,” Jewish Quarterly Review new series 17 (1926-27): 165-98, 239-322Nissim ben Jacob ben Nissim ibn Shahin (Ibn Shahin, Karaite, 11th century), An Elegant Composition concerning Relief after Adversity, trans. William M. Brinner (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977)Jacob Mann, Texts and Studies in Jewish History and Literature, 2 vols. (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1931-35; reprint with intro. by Gerson D. Cohen, New York: Ktav Publishing House, 1972), vol. 2Joshua A. Sabih, ed. and trans., Japheth ibn Ali’s Book of Jeremiah: A Critical Edition and

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Linguistic Analysis of the Judaeo-Arabic Translation (London: Equinox Publishing, 2009)

MaimonidesMoses Maimonides (1135-1204), The Commandments: Sefer ha-Mitzvoth [Kitāb al-farā’id] of Maimonides, ed. and trans. Charles B. Chavel (London and New York: Soncino Publishers, 1967)_____, The Guide for the Perplexed, trans. M. Friedländer (London: George Routledge and Sons; New York: E.P. Dutton, 1919; New York: Pardes Publishing House, 1946; New York: Dover Publishers, 1956)_____, The Guide for the Perplexed, trans. with intro. and notes by Shlomo Pines, introductory essay by Leo Strauss (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963, 1974)_____, Letters of Maimonides, ed. and trans. Leon D. Stitskin (New York: Yeshiva University Press, 1977)_____, A Maimonides Reader, ed. and trans. Isadore Twersky (New York: Behrman House, 1972)_____, Mishneh Torah, Hebrew text with English trans. by Eliyahu Tager, 102 (?) vols. (Jerusalem, New York: Moznayim, 1986)_____, Mishneh Torah: Maimonides’ Code of Law and Ethics, abridged and trans. Philip Birnbaum (New York: Hebrew Publishing Co., 1974)_____, The Preservation of Youth: Essays on Health, trans. with an intro. by Hirsch L. Gordon (New York: Philosophical Library, 1958) SpainBahya ben Joseph ibn Pakuda (Spain, 11th century), The Book of Direction to the Duties of the Heart, ed. and trans. Menahem Mansoor (Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1973) – Jewish ethicsBenjamin of Tudela (Spain, 12th century), The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela, ed. and trans. Marcus Nathan Adler (New York: P. Feldheim, 196-)_____, The World of Benjamin of Tudela: A Medieval Mediterranean Travelogue, ed. Sandra Benjamin (Madison, WI: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London and Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1995)Olivia Remie Constable, ed., Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997)David Goldstein, ed. and trans., Hebrew Poems from Spain (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965); reprinted with revisions as The Jewish Poets in Spain, 900-1250 (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1971)Judah ben Solomon al-Harizi (Spain, 1165-1225), The Book of Tahkemoni: Jewish Tales from Medieval Spain, trans. and annotated David Simha Segal (Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2001) - belles lettres_____, The Tahkemoni, trans. Victor Emmanuel Reichert, 2 vols. (Jerusalem: Raphael Haim Cohen's Press, 1965-73) Abraham ibn Daud (Spain, ca. 1110-80), Sefer ha-Qabbalah [Book of Tradition], ed. and trans. Gerson D. Cohen (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1967)Moses ibn Ezra (Spain, ca. 1060-1139), Selected Poems of Moses ibn Ezra, trans. Solomon Solis-Cohen from text ed. Heinrich Brody (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1934)

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Solomon ibn Gabirol (Spain, ca. 1021-58), Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol, trans. Israel Zangwill from text ed. Israel Davidson (New York: Arno Press, 1923, repr. 1973)Sacd ibn Mansur ibn Kammuna (d. 1284), Ibn Kammuna’s Examination of the Three Faiths: A 13th-Century Essay in the Comparative Study of Religion, ed. and trans. Moshe Perlmann (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971)Samuel ibn Nagrela (Spain, 993-1056), Jewish Prince in Moslem Spain: Selected Poems of Samuel Ibn Nagrela, trans. Leon J. Weinberger (University, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1973)Judah (Yehuda) ha-Levi (ca. 1075-1141), Selected Poems of Jehudah Ha-Levi, trans. Nina Salaman from text ed. Heinrich Brody (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1928, repr. 1974)

Ottoman (including Sabbatai Sevi)Lawrence Fine, trans. and intro., Safed Spirituality: Rules of Mystical Piety, the Beginning of Wisdom (New York: Paulist Press, 1984)Matt Goldish, ed. and trans., Jewish Questions: Responsa on Sephardic Life in the Early Modern Period (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008)David J. Halperin, ed. and trans., Sabbatai Zevi: Testimonies to a Fallen Messiah (Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2007)Uriel Heyd, ed. and trans., Ottoman Documents on Palestine, 1552-1615 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960)Yosef Karo (Safed, 1488-1575), Code of Hebrew Law: Shulhan cAruk, with glosses of Moses Isserles, ed. and trans. Chaim N. Denburg, 2 vols. (Montreal: Jurisprudence Press, 1954- )_____, Jewish Code of Jurisprudence: Talmudical Law Decisions, Civil, Criminal, and Social, trans. J.L. Kadushin, ed. and rev. Gustav N. Hausmann (Boston: Talmud Society, 1919-21)Bernard Lewis, Notes and Documents from the Turkish Archives: A Contribution to the History of the Jews in the Ottoman Empire, Oriental Notes and Studies No. 3 (Jerusalem: Israel Oriental Society, 1952)

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