Date:
Lecturer:
Moshe Yagur presented his current project, which examines the urban reality of the Islamic Mediterranean during the Middle Ages, during which Jews, Muslims and Christians lived side-by-side in the same neighborhoods, alleys, and even shared ownership over the same houses and courtyards. Yagur’s research developed out of his previous research on religious conversion, including the existence of religiously mixed households. Yagur is using historical compositions, archaeology, and documentary fragments from the Cairo Geniza, to reconstruct segments of urban infrastructure in city life. This research is gradually evolving into two separate and supplementary projects – one on inter-religious interactions in residential quarters and neighborhoods, and the other on city life in Fustat, the ancient capital of Egypt during the early Islamic Period.
Photo:
Legal deed of endowment of part of a courtyard in Fustat, 1047 CE.
Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Philadelphia: Halper 336