The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue 9780691189529, 2018966986, 9780691156477, 0691189528

The Lost War Horses of Cairo 9781760638818

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The Abbasid Caliphate of Cairo, 1261-1517: Out of the Shadows 9781474453394

Explores and analyses the Abbasid Caliphate as it was re-imagined in late medieval Cairo Presents different types of sou

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The Synagogue in America: A Short History 9780814769300

In 1789, when George Washington was elected the first president of the United States, laymen from all six Jewish congreg

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The Abbasid Caliphate: A History 9781107183247, 1107183243

A history of the Abbasid Caliphate from its foundation in 750 and golden age under Harun al-Rashid to the conquest of Ba

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A Woman of Cairo 9781444718904, 9780340839911

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A Forgotten Ambassador in Cairo 9788194752097

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Cairo: Histories of a City 9780674060791

From its earliest days as a royal settlement fronting the pyramids of Giza to its current manifestation as the largest m

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Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo 9780226553405, 9780226540887, 022655340X

About a millennium ago, in Cairo, an unknown author completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thir

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The Cairo Genizah and the Age of Discovery in Egypt: The History and Provenance of a Jewish Archive 9781788319638, 9781788319645, 9781788319676, 9781788319669

The Cairo Genizah is considered one of the world’s greatest Hebrew manuscript treasures. Yet the story of how over a qua

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Jewish Russians: Upheavals in a Moscow Synagogue 9780812202038

Based on extensive fieldwork, Jewish Russians examines a population in crisis, in a city in crisis, in a state in crisis

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