Book lists from the Cairo Genizah: a window on the production of texts in the middle ages
Miriam Frenkel
Abstract The historicity of books – their role as a force in history has been addressed post-war literary studies from different perspectives and across various disciplines. Nevertheless, the scholarship on book medieval Islam is still relatively sparse, even though this society underwent thorough process textualization. But authors who do consider social cultural look only at production consumption Arabic within boundaries Muslim society, relying Islamic sources which reflect mainly courtly milieu scribes secretariats. None discuss produced consumed by religious minorities that were an indispensable part none have made use abundant Genizah documents source material. In present programmatic article, I call attention to many lists found Cairo potential significant tools for developing better understanding Islamicate world.
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies