The Cairo Geniza, alternatively spelled the Cairo Genizah, is a collection of some 400,000 Jewish manuscript fragments and Fatimid administrative documents...

There are number of former synagogues in Cairo, the capital city of Egypt. The number of Egyptian Jews in the city has decreased significantly from its...

(641-1517). American Univ in Cairo Press. pp. 44–45. ISBN 978-977-416-093-6. Goitein, S. D. (1960). "The Documents of the Cairo Geniza as a Source for Mediterranean...

variant readings of that targum. The Cairo Geniza Fragment Targums originate from the Ben Ezra Synagogue's genizah in Cairo. They share similarities with the...

Jews of Greece and the Balkans. However, the documents discovered in Cairo Geniza reveal that the influence of Minhag Eretz Israel on Benè Romì is less...

form of a letter sent from Safed, Israel, to Italy in 1535. In it, David del Rossi claimed that a Tripolitan Jewish merchant had told him the India town...

explorations of his religious motivations for his aliyah, preserved in the Cairo geniza. Some contain imaginary details of the voyage, such as descriptions of...

the Crusades, according to the Cairo Geniza documents. A document dated 996 mentions Amalfian merchants living in Cairo. Another letter states that the...

the Crusades, according to the Cairo Geniza documents. A document dated 996 mentions Amalfian merchants living in Cairo. Another letter states that the...

photographs of the scrolls. Ancient Hebrew writings Book of Mysteries Cairo Geniza Jordan Lead Codices Ketef Hinnom scrolls (7th/6th century BCE), oldest...

ʿAbbād, Promoter of Rational Theology: Two Muʿtazilī kalām texts from the Cairo Geniza". Al-Ṣāḥib Ibn ʿAbbād Promoter of Rational Theology. Islamic History...

Correspondence, together with the Schechter Letter discovered in the Cairo Geniza and the famous plato nizing dialogue by Judah Halevi, Sefer ha-Kuzari...

Agrigento were converted to Christianity. The community is mentioned in the Cairo Geniza circa 1060. The Jewish presence in Agrigento did not survive the expulsion...

and whose records remain from the 11th century AD, found amongst the Cairo Geniza. Fibonacci included double-entry and Hindo-Arabic numerals in his Liber...

1980s, in the form of a probably eleventh-century fragment from the Cairo Geniza (where it is now catalogued as Cambridge, Cambridge University Library...

Letters from the Jewish community in Nájera have been found in the Cairo Geniza. Edward, the Black Prince fought in the Battle of Nájera in 1367, intervening...

formed a great emporium on the sea route to India. Documents of the Cairo Geniza about Aden reflect a thriving Jewish community led by the prominent Bundar...

least two riddles attributed to Dunash in the Philadelphia fragment. A Geniza fragment from between the tenth and twelfth century CE in Philadelphia,...

which were kept in place with fillets called 'isaba. Evidence from the Cairo Geniza indicates Jewish and Muslim women dressed similarly, and that ghiyar...

Maimonides to become sick with grief. In a letter discovered in the Cairo Geniza, he wrote: The greatest misfortune that has befallen me during my entire...

whom enough is known to paint a detailed biography. Documents like the Cairo Geniza, a collection of Jewish manuscript fragments, provide scientific records...

Palestine. 1029: Rabbi Solomon ben Judah of Jerusalem, a letter in the Cairo Geniza, refers to the province of Filastin 1047: Nasir Khusraw, Safarnama /...

across the Middle East - as early as 1493 - Constantinople, Fez (1516), Cairo (1557) and Safed (1577). Disquiet among Muslims regarding the publication...

an-Nuwayrī, Nihayat al-Arab, and Abu Muhammad Abdallah at-Tijani, Rihlah. The Cairo Geniza shows how north African trade was monopolised by Tunis and Mahdia. The...

II p. 9, 1988; Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania The Cairo Geniza, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1959, p. 222 De Septuaginta: Studies in Honour...

Synagogue when it was set on fire. This letter was discovered among the Cairo Geniza collection in 1975 by historian Shelomo Dov Goitein. Historians believe...

Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza (4 vols.). Berkeley and Los Angeles. ISBN 978-0520018679.{{cite book}}:...

refutation of Ḥīwī's arguments, two fragments of which, preserved in the Cairo Geniza, have been published (Davidson, 1915; Schirmann, 1965). Ḥīwī's criticisms...

scholar. From 1990 to 1996, he worked on the project Magic from the Cairo Geniza and the project Greek-Roman Religion in Palestine (financed by the German...

Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza volume I. Berkeley: University of California. Solvyns, Balthazar (2001)...