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4 - Onomastics, the Cairo Geniza, and Jewish Exceptionalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2022

Phillip Lieberman
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
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In this chapter, I revisit the idea of a substantial Jewish population from the Islamic East in Egypt by looking at the names of individuals as they appear in documents in the Cairo Geniza. My study reveals that a small core of individuals in medieval Egypt hailed from the East, but onomastic practices do not suggest that a massive migration from East to West took place. I compare these findings with other studies looking at the names of Muslim individuals; these comparanda confirm my conclusions concerning the Jewish minority.

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The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East
Tracing the Demographic Shift from East to West
, pp. 105 - 144
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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