Book contents
- The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East
- The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 The Field of History and the Fields of Iraq
- 2 Jewish Occupational Choice and Urbanization in Iraq
- 3 Conversion to Islam among the Jews of Early ʿAbbāsid Iraq
- 4 Onomastics, the Cairo Geniza, and Jewish Exceptionalism
- 5 The Early Vulgar Judeo-Arabic Spelling (EPJAS) and Westward Movement
- 6 The Development of Jewish and Islamic Commercial Law in the Early Islamic Centuries
- 7 Migratory Movements throughout the Islamic Mediterranean in the Early Islamic Centuries
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - Onomastics, the Cairo Geniza, and Jewish Exceptionalism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 June 2022
Book contents
- The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East
- The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 The Field of History and the Fields of Iraq
- 2 Jewish Occupational Choice and Urbanization in Iraq
- 3 Conversion to Islam among the Jews of Early ʿAbbāsid Iraq
- 4 Onomastics, the Cairo Geniza, and Jewish Exceptionalism
- 5 The Early Vulgar Judeo-Arabic Spelling (EPJAS) and Westward Movement
- 6 The Development of Jewish and Islamic Commercial Law in the Early Islamic Centuries
- 7 Migratory Movements throughout the Islamic Mediterranean in the Early Islamic Centuries
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
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 EastTracing the Demographic Shift from East to West, pp. 105 - 144Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022