Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World Online
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The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World (EJIW) is the first cohesive and discreet reference work which covers the Jews of Muslim lands particularly in the late medieval, early modern and modern periods. The expanded online version, EJIW Online (started in 2010), is updated twice annually with newly commissioned articles, illustrations, multimedia, and primary source material.
EJIW Online now includes the analytical index, which was recently awarded the Wheatley Medal 2011; the list of Internet resources; the unique survey of Jewish journals in the Islamic world; and the maps. The encyclopedia has been awarded the 2011 Judaica Reference Award by the Association of Jewish Libraries.
The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World is also available in print, visit https://brill.com/view/package/9789004176782 for more information.
Features and Benefits - Interdisciplinary articles cover a wide range of topics from history, law, music, visual arts, social sciences, philosophy, anthropology and demography - Alphabetical order and cross-references enable quick and easy searching - Over 150 color and black and white illustrations, graphs and maps - Over 2,200 entries and 1.5 million words - Updates will include new articles, illustrations and multimedia - The only reference work of its kind - Up-to-date research and bibliographies make it indispensable for all levels of users - Over 350 internationally-renowned scholars from all over the world
EJIW Online now includes the analytical index, which was recently awarded the Wheatley Medal 2011; the list of Internet resources; the unique survey of Jewish journals in the Islamic world; and the maps. The encyclopedia has been awarded the 2011 Judaica Reference Award by the Association of Jewish Libraries.
The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World is also available in print, visit https://brill.com/view/package/9789004176782 for more information.
Features and Benefits - Interdisciplinary articles cover a wide range of topics from history, law, music, visual arts, social sciences, philosophy, anthropology and demography - Alphabetical order and cross-references enable quick and easy searching - Over 150 color and black and white illustrations, graphs and maps - Over 2,200 entries and 1.5 million words - Updates will include new articles, illustrations and multimedia - The only reference work of its kind - Up-to-date research and bibliographies make it indispensable for all levels of users - Over 350 internationally-renowned scholars from all over the world
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Indices
Index Letter A
- A (À bout de souffle (Breathless, film, Godard), music of - Abū Ibrāhīm (Isaac) ibn Yashūsh ibn Kastar)
- A (Abū ‘Imrān al-Fāsī - adults, education of)
- A (Ādurbād ī Ēmēdān - Akedat Yitzhak School (Talmud Torah school, Edirne))
- A (Akhbār Baghdād (Chronicle of Baghdad, Nathan ha-Bavlī) - Alexandria: travel accounts of)
- A (“Alexandria, Egypt: Modern” (article, Elijah Bekhor Ḥazzan) - ‘Alī Bū Damī’a (regional strong in Southern Morocco))
- A (‘Alī Burghul (ruler of Tripoli) - Alliance Française schools)
- A (Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU) - Almoravids: ruling of Valencia)
- A (Almosnino, Abraham - Ancona (Italy): yeshiva)
- A ( anti-dhimmi sentiments in - anti-dhimmī agitation/violence: writings)
- A (anti-dhimmī measures - anti-Jewish violence/agitation: blood libel cases; persecution, of Jews; terrorist attacks)
- A (anti-Judaism/antisemitism - Arabic culture: theater, in Tunisia)
- A (Arabic language - Arbib, Mezeltobe)
- A (Arbib, Raffaele - Ashira Na li-Ydidi (Let Me Sing to My Friend, piyyuṭ Serero))
- A (Ashkelon (Israel) - astronomers: Muslim)
- A (astronomical tables - al-Azharī, Esther)
- A (azharot (exhortations/hymns, poetical rendering of the 613 commandments) - Azulay, Ḥayyim Joseph David (Ḥida): writings of)
Index Letter B
- B (Bā Aḥmad (grand vizier, Morocco) - Bagratids (Bagrationi) dynasty)
- B (Bahaism - Barāl, Azīza)
- B (Baransel, Nil - Beit She’an (Israel): scholars in)
- B (Beit Zilkha Yeshiva (Baghdad) - Bendjelloul, Mohamed Salah)
- B (Bene Aharon (The Sons of Aaron, Aaron Lapapa) - Bet Aharon Synagogue (Skopje))
- B (Bet Av (House of the Father, Isaac ben Shabbetai ‘Antebi) - Binyan Na‘arim (Upbuilding of Youth, Amram ben Judah Elbaz))
- B (biographies - Boujad (Morocco): synagogues)
- B (Boujenah, Matthieu - Bülbüli, Isaac)
- B ( anti-Jewish violence in - Bzou (Morocco): Jewish quarters in)
Index Letter C
- C (Çabaçay, Yuçaf - Cairo Conference on future of Iraq (1921))
- C (Cairo Geniza - Capitulations agreements (Ottoman Empire) with European powers: and protection of Ottoman population groups by foreign powers)
- C (Caprotti, Giuseppe - cemeteries: non-Muslim)
- C (Cenival, Pierre de - Christiani, Pablo (Jacob ben Eli of Carcassonne))
- C (Christianity - clothing: dress codes)
- C (Club des Intimes (Salonica) - Le Commerce du Levant (newspaper, Beirut))
- C (commercial networks - contracts: of Zoroastrians to Islam, forced, in Iran)
- C (conversos - kira)
- C (courts of law - Czerniewski, Anton)
Index Letter D
- D (Da‘at le-Hisha’el (Knowledge to Ask, Yom Ṭov Algazi) - dates, trade, Jewish involvement in)
- D (dating - department stores: in Tunisia)
- D (deportation of Jews - Diqduq (Joseph ibn Nūḥ))
- D (Diqduqe ha-Ṭe‘amim (The Fine Rules of the Accents, Aaron ben Asher) - dynamics, theories of)
Index Letter E
- E (earrings - education)
- E (‘Edut be-Yosef (In Joseph for a Testimony, Joseph al-Ashqar) - Egypt: in World War II)
- E (l’Égypte Contemporaine (periodical, Egypt) - emissaries: in Yemen)
- E (Emmanuel, Isaac Samuel - etrogim (citrons used in Sukkot worship))
- E (Ets-Haim Library (Amsterdam) - ‘Ezrī, Tzion)
Index Letter F
- F (Faal Reklam Acentası (Faal Advertising Agency) - Fetaya, Moses and Aaron)
- F (feudalism - folk healers, Jewish, in Morocco)
- F (folk literature - France: in World War II, Jewish involvement in resistance)
- F (La France Juive (Drumont) - Futūḥ al-Buldān (The Conquest of the Nations, al-Balādhurī))
Index Letter G
- G (Gabbai, Ezekiel ben Joshua (1824–1896) - The Geonim of Babylonia and the Shaping of Medieval Jewish Culture (Brody))
- G (geonim/gaonate - Gil, Moshe: on Tustarī family)
- G (Gilan (province, Iran) - linguistics)
- G (Grana communities (Jews from Livorno) - Guzmán y Meneses, Don Enrique Péres de (duke of Medina Sidonia))
Index Letter H
- H (Ha-Kohen, Aaron Ḥayyim - ḥakīm (Jewish physicians))
- H (Ḥakim, Joseph - Ḥara Ṣeghira (Jerba, Tunisia): synagogues)
- H (Haramati, Shlomo - Ḥayyūj, Judah (Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā) ben David al-Fāsi: translations into Hebrew of works of)
- H (Ḥayyun, Gedaliah - ḥeders (Jewish religious schools): criticism of)
- H (Hegyon ha-Nefesh ha-‘Aṣuva (Meditation of the Sad Soul, Bar Ḥiyya) - Hirsch, Maurice de: development of Salonica by)
- H (Hirschberg, Haïm Zeev - hybridized identities, of Jews converted to Islam)
Index Letter I
- I (I Camondo & Cie Banque Camondo - Ibn Ezra, Judah ben Joseph ha-Nasi)
- I (Ibn Ezra, Moses - Ibn Lev, Joseph ben David (Rival/Maharival, b. 1500): responsa by)
- I (Ibn Luṭf, Bābāi - Ibn Sughmār, Joseph ben David)
- I (Ibn Sughmār, Judah ben Moses - ‘Imrānī: poetry)
- I (Imre Bina (Words of Understanding, Isaac Farḥi) - Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988))
- I (Iran/Persia - Īrāna company)
- I (Iranian American Jewish Federation - Iskindiriyya lih? (Alexandria . . . Why?, film, Chahine))
- I (Iskra (Communist movement, Egypt), Jewish involvement in - Ismā‘īlīsm, Jewish)
- I (Israel - Israel Discount Bank (Banq Diskonṭ))
- I (Israel family - Istanbul Amateur Photography and Cinema Club (IFSAK))
- I (Istanbul Ansiklopedisi (Koçu) - Izmit (Anatolia): Jewish community in, population of)
Index Letter J
- J (J M Cattaoui Figli et Compagnie - Jerrada (Morocco): Jewish community in)
- J (Jerusalem - jewelry: amulets)
- J (Jewish Agency - jizya/kharāj tax (poll tax): in Yemen)
- J (J.L. Menasce et fils - Judaic studies: in United States)
- J (Judaism - al-Jūzjānī, Minhāj al-Dīn ‘Abu Amr)
Index Letter K
- K (K (movie, Alexandre Arcady) - Kalam (newspaper, Istanbul))
- K (Kalām (scholastic theology) - Karaite Judaism: A Guide to Its History and Literary Sources (Polliack))
- K (Karaite Mourners of Zion Mourners for/of Zion movement - Khodāidād Khudāidād)
- K (Khōkhat al-Yahūd (Jewish quarter, Mahalla al-Kubra) - Kitāb-i Sar-Guzasht-i Kāshān dar Bāb-i ‘ibrī va Goyimi-yi Sānī (The Book of Events in Kashan Concerning the Jews; Their Second Conversion, Ibn Farhād): twelfth chapter of)
- K (Kitchener, Herbert - Kyra, Esther Ḥandali, Esther Kira)
Index Letter L
- L (La Hare conte (Ryvel) - Laredo, Abraham M.)
- L (Laredo, Isaac - Leqeṭ Avraham (Abraham’s Gleaning, Khalfon))
- L (Leqeṭ ha-Qaṣir (Harvest Gleaning, Khalfon) - linguistics: grammar)
- L (Linjān (Iran) - London Society for Promoting Christianity Among the Jews (LJS): schools of)
- L (Longo, Sa‘adya ben Abraham - Lyons (France), Jewish community in, merchants/businessmen)
Index Letter M
- M (Ma Ṭovu Ṣivya Dodekh le-Dod (poem, Abi Zimra) - Maimonides, Joshua ben Abraham (Joshua ha-Nagid, 1310–1355))
- M (Maimonides, Moses (Rambam) - Mallah, Moses Aaron)
- M (mālūf (familiar, customary) music style - Marnia (Algeria): terrorist attacks on)
- M (Marock (film, Marrakchi) - Matlauddin, Ziya)
- M (Matmata (Tunisia) - Me’ira Dakhya (Pure Enlightening, Hezekiah Isaac Mizraḥi Shar‘abi))
- M (Meknes (Morocco) - merchants/businessmen: Serbian, in Skopje)
- M (Merida (Spain) - Middle Ages: slavery and slave trade in)
- M (Middle Arabic - migration of Jews aliya)
- M (Mihai Racoviţá (prince of Moldavia) - missionary schools: in Ottoman empire)
- M (Mistra (Greece) - Mohammed Cohen (Kayat))
- M (mohar (bride’s price) - Moroccan Jewry: writings about)
- M (Morocco - morphology)
- M (Morpurgo, Anna - Mūl Tazrūt (Mūl z-Zubya))
- M (Mul ha-Ye‘arot (Facing the Forests, short story, A.B. Yehoshua) - Muslim societies: sexuality in)
- M (muslim sources Islamic sources/texts - Mzabi Jews (Saharan Jews): of Strasbourg, mystical traditions of)
Index Letter N
- N (N. Izidor Barouh’un Anılarından Türkiye’de Reklamcılıǧın Doǧuşu (The Birth of Advertising in Turkey from the Memories of N. Izidor Barouh, Şendilmen) - naskh (scriptural abrogation concept))
- N (Nasrid dynasty - Neoplatonism: reconciled with Torah)
- N (Ne’ot Midbar (Pastures of the Wilderness, Raphael Aaron (I) Monsonego) - Nikopol (Bulgaria): tax collection by)
- N (Nikopol Synagogue (Istanbul) - Nuzhat al-Qulūb (‘Imād al-Dawla))
Index Letter O
- O (OAS Armée Secrète (OAS, Algeria) - Orientalism: synagogues, partial destruction of)
- O (Orlov Revolt (1770) - Ottoman Empire: Turkey)
- O (Ottoman-Israelite Union - Ottoman-Venetian Wars: and Zionism)
- O (Ouarzazate region (Morocco) - Ozer, Zion)
Index Letter P
- P (Pa‘amone Zahav (Golden Bells, Raphael Anqāwa) - Palestine Bureau (Turkey))
- P (Palestine Discount Bank Israel Discount Bank (Banq Diskonṭ) - Patmut‘iwn Aṛak‘el Vardapeti Dawrizhets‘woy (The History of Vardapet Aṛak‘el Davrižec‘i, Aṛke‘el))
- P (Patras (Greece) - Pesiqta Rabbati)
- P (Pessah, Moshe - pilgrimage: by women)
- P (pilgrimage sites - Poèmes patriotiques (poetry collection, Lucien Sciuto))
- P (poetry - Portugal: trade relations with Morocco)
- P (Portugal Synagogue (Izmir) - protection: for Grana community)
- P (protest movements, Black Panthers - pūshi (transparent veil))
Index Letter Q
- Q (qā‘a ḥurumiyya (special room for women) - Qol Sasson ( Voice of Joy, Sasson Shindukh))
- Q (Qol Ṣiyyon (newspaper, Tunisia) - Qutuz (Mamluk sultan))
Index Letter R
- R (Ra’anaḥ Elijah ben Ḥayyim - Raqqa (Syria): in Turkey/Ottoman Empire)
- R (Rashi (Solomon Yitzhaki) - La résistance africaine à la romanisation (Bénabou))
- R (responsa - Rolo, Robert J.)
- R (Rolo, Robert S. - Ryvel (Raphaël Lévy): writings of)
Index Letter S
- S (s-slaghut (code language of Jewish traders) - Ṣafenat Pa‘ne’aḥ Sefer Ṣafenat Pa‘ne’aḥ)
- S (Safi (Asfī, Morocco) - Salonikio, Avraham)
- S (al-Salṭana, Ḥisām - Ṣarfati, Vidal (II) ben Isaac: writings of)
- S (Ṣarfati, Vidal (III) - school textbooks, Arabic, antisemitism in)
- S (schools - Seder ‘Aqedat Yiṣḥaq (poetry compilation))
- S (Seder ha-Dorot (Order of the Generations, Ibn Danan) - Ṣemiḥat ha-Qehilla ha-Yehudit be-Arṣot ha-Islam: Qayrawan, 800–1057 (Ben-Sasson))
- S (semikha (rabbinical ordination) - Sephardization)
- S (Sephiha, Haïm-Vidal - Shabbetay Ṣevi: Sabbatean movement)
- S (Shabīb ben Jacob - Shevut Yehuda (The Captivity of Judah, Elbaz))
- S (Shfeya Institute for Orphans (Jerusalem) - Shuroo (film, Savi Gabizon))
- S (shurūḥ (Judeo-Arabic translations of religious texts) - Sklare, David)
- S (Skopje (Macedonia) - Soncino-Gesellschaft der Freunde des jⁿdischen Buches)
- S (Song of Songs - Special Committee for the Relief of Jews in Palestine)
- S (spellings - Sura yeshiva: students of)
- S (Surākh al-Barī’ fī Būq al-Ḥurriyya (The Call of the Innocent with the Trumpet of Freedom, Fāris) - synagogues: Yarim)
- S (The Synagogues of Turkey (Güleryüz) - Szold, Henrietta)
Index Letter T
- T (Ta Shma, Israel - Talmud Torah ha-Gadol (Great House of Study, Salonica): reforms in)
- T (Talmud Torah schools - ṭarṭūr (tall cone-shaped hat))
- T (Tarudant (Morocco) - Tchernichowsky, Saul)
- T (teachers/educators - Tevfik, Ebüzziya)
- T (textile industry - Tiznit (Morocco): synagogues, design/layout of)
- T (Tjehnu (original inhabitants of Libya) - Touati, Emile)
- T (Toubiana, Makhlouf - translations: by Renassia, Daniel ben Joseph)
- T (translators/interpreters - Tripoli (Libya): Spanish occupation and rule of)
- T (Tripolis (Three Cities, area on Libyan coast with Phoenician settlements) - Tunisia: Ifrīqiya (medieval Tunisia))
- T (La Tunisie Nouvelle (The New Tunisia, journal) - Turkey: Ottoman Empire)
- T (Turkic languages - Tyrer, Ḥayyim ben Solomon)
Index Letter U
Index Letter V
Index Letter W
- W (Wadi Abu Jamil (Jewish quarter, Beirut) - Wolman, Dan)
- W (women - written text: transmission of knowledge through)
Index Letter X
Index Letter Y
- Y (Yā Khasra kīf kent ṣeghīra (Nostalgia for the Time When You Were Young, song, Asher Mizraḥi) - Yemen: and Jews)
- Y (Yemenite Jewry - Yūsuf and Zulaykhā legend)
Index Letter Z
Executive Editor Norman A. Stillman
Medieval Iberia Angel Saenz-Badillos
Medieval Arabic-Speaking World Meira Polliack
Modern Arabic-Speaking World (post 1492) Phillip I. Lieberman
Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey Yaron Ayalon
Persia, Modern Iran, Kurdistan, Caucasus and Central Asia Vera Basch Moreen
Language & Linguistics Ofra Tirosh-Becker
Modern Literature Monique R. Balbuena
Post-medieval Mashreq and Libya Rachel Simon
Music Edwin Seroussi
Social sciences Norman A. Stillman
Medieval Iberia Angel Saenz-Badillos
Medieval Arabic-Speaking World Meira Polliack
Modern Arabic-Speaking World (post 1492) Phillip I. Lieberman
Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey Yaron Ayalon
Persia, Modern Iran, Kurdistan, Caucasus and Central Asia Vera Basch Moreen
Language & Linguistics Ofra Tirosh-Becker
Modern Literature Monique R. Balbuena
Post-medieval Mashreq and Libya Rachel Simon
Music Edwin Seroussi
Social sciences Norman A. Stillman
Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World Online
Managing Editor:
The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World (EJIW) is the first cohesive and discreet reference work which covers the Jews of Muslim lands particularly in the late medieval, early modern and modern periods. The expanded online version, EJIW Online (started in 2010), is updated twice annually with newly commissioned articles, illustrations, multimedia, and primary source material.
EJIW Online now includes the analytical index, which was recently awarded the Wheatley Medal 2011; the list of Internet resources; the unique survey of Jewish journals in the Islamic world; and the maps. The encyclopedia has been awarded the 2011 Judaica Reference Award by the Association of Jewish Libraries.
The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World is also available in print, visit https://brill.com/view/package/9789004176782 for more information.
Features and Benefits - Interdisciplinary articles cover a wide range of topics from history, law, music, visual arts, social sciences, philosophy, anthropology and demography - Alphabetical order and cross-references enable quick and easy searching - Over 150 color and black and white illustrations, graphs and maps - Over 2,200 entries and 1.5 million words - Updates will include new articles, illustrations and multimedia - The only reference work of its kind - Up-to-date research and bibliographies make it indispensable for all levels of users - Over 350 internationally-renowned scholars from all over the world
EJIW Online now includes the analytical index, which was recently awarded the Wheatley Medal 2011; the list of Internet resources; the unique survey of Jewish journals in the Islamic world; and the maps. The encyclopedia has been awarded the 2011 Judaica Reference Award by the Association of Jewish Libraries.
The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World is also available in print, visit https://brill.com/view/package/9789004176782 for more information.
Features and Benefits - Interdisciplinary articles cover a wide range of topics from history, law, music, visual arts, social sciences, philosophy, anthropology and demography - Alphabetical order and cross-references enable quick and easy searching - Over 150 color and black and white illustrations, graphs and maps - Over 2,200 entries and 1.5 million words - Updates will include new articles, illustrations and multimedia - The only reference work of its kind - Up-to-date research and bibliographies make it indispensable for all levels of users - Over 350 internationally-renowned scholars from all over the world
Please contact our sales team for more information on prices and licensing.