The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East: Tracing the Demographic Shift from East to West

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Contents
LIst of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Preface
List of Abbreviations
1 The Field of History and the Fields of Iraq
	Introduction
2 Jewish Occupational Choice and Urbanization in Iraq
	Jewish Settlement in Babylonia at the Rise of Islam
	Jewish Urbanization in the Early Centuries of Islam
	Economic Alternatives to Urbanization
	Changing Landholding Patterns in Iraq
	The Population of Baghdad
	What Happened to the Jews?
3 Conversion to Islam among the Jews of Early ʿAbbāsid Iraq
	Writing Oneself In or Out: Conversion to Islam in the Wake of the Conquest of Iraq
	Geonic Materials on Conversion from Judaism
	The Frequency and Location of Conversion to Islam
	Conceiving of Conversion: Approaches from Elsewhere
	Conclusion: The Role of Assimilation to Islamic Culture in the Retreat of Iraqi Jewry
4 Onomastics, the Cairo Geniza, and Jewish Exceptionalism
	What\'s in a Name?
5 The Early Vulgar Judeo-Arabic Spelling (EPJAS) and Westward Movement
	Whither EVJAS/EPJAS?
	How Much Arabic?
	Arabic among Jews in Iraq
	The Penetration of Arabic into the Jewish Community of the West
	Classical Arabic among the Jews of Tenth-Century North Africa
	Palestine and Babylonia: Karaites and Se\'adya
	Urban versus Rural in Tenth-Century Judeo-Arabic
	Enhanced Urban-Rural Contacts in the Tenth Century
	Some Historical Problems with Blau and Hopkins\' Solution
	Seʿadya and Arabic in the Documents Preserved in the Geniza
	Contextualizing the Disappearance of EVJAS
	Conclusion
6 The Development of Jewish and Islamic Commercial Law in the Early Islamic Centuries
	Legal Sources from the Early Islamic Centuries
	The Development of Jewish Commercial Law: Rabbanite Sources
		The Basic Models for Commercial Cooperation from the Talmud to the High Middle Ages
		The \'\'Wage as a Worker\'\': Indications of Deepening Commercial Networks
		Dividing Profits and Losses: Exposure to Islamic Partnership Practice
		\'\'Administrator\'\' as \'\'Investor\'\': Developing Patterns of Investment
		Other Changes in Commerce Visible in the Law
		Law and Literature: Writing for One\'s Audience
		The Suftaja - Expanding Penetration into Long-Distance Trade, Gradual Acceptance by Jurists
		The \'\'Economic Factor\'\' and the Expanding Acceptability of Documents
		Dating the Expansion of Markets
		Developments in Rabbanite Law - Conclusions
	Detail from Karaite Materials Shedding Light on the Development of Commercial Law
		Proto-Karaite/Early Karaite Authorities: Adumbrating Commercial Law
		Developments in the Law: Tenth and Eleventh Centuries
		The Twelfth Century: Evidence of Further Development
	Islamic Commercial Law from Shaybani to Kasani
	Comparing Developments in Rabbanite, Karaite, and Islamic Commercial Law
7 Migratory Movements throughout the Islamic Mediterranean in the Early Islamic Centuries
	Political and Military Stimuli
		The Thughur: Migration due to Military and Political Forces
		Immigration More Broadly: \'\'Religious\'\' as well as Military
		Controlling Local Economies and Urban Unrest by Managing Migration
	Economic Forces on the Individual
	Talab Al-ilm and \'\'Religious\'\' Forces Revisited
	\'\'Push\'\' versus \'\'Pull\'\' Factors in General
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index