The Compassionate and Benevolent: Jewish Ruling Elites in the Medieval Islamicate World

Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Part I Contexts
Chapter 1 The Context of Time
Chapter 2 The Context of Space
Part II The Community Leaders: Biographies
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Ben Yeshūʿā Family
Chapter 2 Shelah b. Mubashshir Ben Nahum
Chapter 3 Abraham b. Jacob al-Darʿī
Chapter 4 Āraḥ b. Nathan the Seventh (Musāfir b. Wahb)
Chapter 5 Aaron b. Yeshūʿā the Physician Ibn al-ʿAmmānī
Chapter 6 Abū Naṣr b. Abraham
Chapter 7 Meir b. Hillel b. Ṣadoq
Chapter 8: Eleazar ha-Kohen b. Judah, Saʿd al-Mulk
Chapter 9 R. Ephraim
Chapter 10 R. Pinḥas
Chapter 11 Anatoly b. R. Joseph
Chapter 12 R. Samuel b. Jacob
Chapter 13 Isaac the Judge b. Ḥalfon
Chapter 14 Judah the Teacher b. Aaron the Physician Ibn Al-ʿAmmānī
Part III Towards a Characterization of the Jewish Leadership in Alexandria
Chapter 1 Sources of Power
Chapter 2 Methods of Governance: Tools and Strategies
Chapter 3 The Normative Understanding of Governance
Part IV A Ruling Elite
Introduction
Chapter 1 Common Interests
Chapter 2 Systems of Training and Sorting
Chapter 3 A Common Culture
Chapter 4 Organizational Apparatus and Means of Communication
Chapter 5 Conclusions
Bibliography
Glossary of Terms
Index