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A Mediterranean Society: An Abridgment in One Volume » (1st Edition)

Book cover image of A Mediterranean Society: An Abridgment in One Volume by S. D. Goitein

Authors: S. D. Goitein, Jacob (Ed.) Lassner, Jacob Lassner
ISBN-13: 9780520240599, ISBN-10: 0520240596
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: December 2003
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: S. D. Goitein

S. D. Goitein, who was associated with the
Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University at the time of his death in 1985, was honored with the Haskins Medal of the Medieval Society and the National Jewish Book Award for A Mediterranean Society. Teacher, administrator, and prolific writer, he was a preeminent scholar in the areas of Jewish-Arab relations and Islamic culture. Jacob Lassner, Philip M. & Ethel Klutznick Professor of Jewish Civilization at Northwestern University, is a leading authority on the medieval Near East.

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"Lassner has done a great service to the community. . . . The greatest value of this outstanding contribution is in making the vast geniza data accessible, while providing contextualization."—Reuven Firestone, Hebrew Union College, Jewish
Institute of Religion

"The abridgment is excellent, and the treatment of the topics ought to have a wide appeal to students and scholars alike. . . . Lassner has brought to vibrant and new life a great scholar's masterpiece."—Rudi Paul Lindner, University of Michigan

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