Description:
This groundbreaking volume marks a rare and transformative contribution to studies of the Cairo Genizah, a vast trove of documents generated by Egypt's Jewish community between the 10th and 19th centuries.
Brief description: Jane Hathaway is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at Ohio State University. She received her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University in 1992; while at Princeton, she worked on the medieval Genizah under the direction of Mark R. Cohen. She is a specialist in the early modern history of the Ottoman Empire and, in that context, on the Ottoman Arab provinces, the Ottoman Chief Harem Eunuch, and Jewish communities under Muslim rule. Her publications include The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of the Qazdağlıs *(Cambridge, 1997), *A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen (SUNY, 2003), The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem: From African Slave to Power-Broker (Cambridge, 2018), and The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule, 1516-1800 (2nd ed. Routledge, 2020), as well as scores of articles and book chapters on related topics and on reactions in Egypt and Yemen to the movement of the Jewish messianic figure Sabbatai Zevi.