Reading List - Jewish Communities under Islamic Rule

GENERAL REFERENCE ON ISLAMIC AND JEWISH HISTORY (Do not use for book
reviews.)
W.D. Davies and Louis Finkelstein, eds., The Cambridge History of Judaism (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1984- )
Encyclopaedia Iranica
The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1st ed. (EI1), 2nd ed. (EI2)
Encyclopedia Judaica (EJ)
Cyril Glassé, The Concise Encyclopedia of Islam (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1989)
Dilip Hiro, A Dictionary of the Middle East (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998)
P.M. Holt, et al., eds., The Cambridge History of Islam (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1970, 1977)
Joseph R. Strayer, ed., Dictionary of the Middle Ages (New York: Scribner, 1982)

BASIC ISLAMIC HISTORY AND INSTITUTIONS (Do not use for book reviews.)
Frederick M. Denny, An Introduction to Islam, 3rd ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/
Prentice Hall, 2006 [1994])
H.A.R. Gibb, Mohammedanism (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1953)
- a useful short handbook, but very old-school
S.D. Goitein, Studies in Islamic History and Institutions (Leiden: Brill, 1966)
Marshall G.S. Hodgson, The Venture of Islam, 3 vols. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1974)
Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples (New York: Warner Books, 1991)
Ira Lapidus, A History of Islamic Societies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988)
Richard C. Martin, Islam: A Cultural Perspective (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1982)
_____, Islamic Studies: A History of Religions Approach, 2nd ed. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice-Hall, 1996)
Neal Robinson, Islam: A Concise Introduction (Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000)
Annemarie Schimmel, Islam: An Introduction, trans. from the German (Albany: State
University of New York Press, 1992)

SECONDARY SOURCES ON JEWS UNDER ISLAMIC RULE

General
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, The Exiled and the Redeemed, trans. Isaac A. Abbady, 2nd ed. (Philadelphia:
Jewish Publication Society of America, 1961)
Sheldon R. Brunswick, ed., Studies in Judaica, Karaitica, and Islamica: Presented to Leon
Nemoy on His Eightieth Birthday (Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1982)
Mark R. Cohen, “Islam and the Jews: Myth, Counter-Myth, History,” Jerusalem Quarterly 38
(1986): 125-37
_____, Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1994)
Louis Finkelstein, ed., The Jews: Their History, Culture, and Religion, 3rd ed. (New York:
Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1960)
Benjamin R. Gampel, ed., Crisis and Creativity in the Sephardic World, 1391-1648 (New York:
Columbia University Press, 1997)
S.D. Goitein, Jews and Arabs: Their Contacts through the Ages (New York: Schocken Books,
 1974)
Cecil Roth, A History of the Jews (New York: Schocken Books, 1964)
David Solomon Sassoon, A History of the Jews of Baghdad (Letchworth: Solomon D. Sassoon,
1949)
Yedida K. Stillman and Norman A. Stillman, eds., From Iberia to Diaspora: Studies in
Sephardic History and Culture (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 1999)

In the original Muslim community

Barakat Ahmad, Muhammad and the Jews: A Re-examination (New Delhi: Vikas Publishing
House, 1979)
Mark R. Cohen, “What Was the Pact of Umar? A Literary-Historical Study,” Jerusalem Studies
in Arabic and Islam 23 (1999): 100-31
Michael Lecker, Jews and Arabs in Pre- and Early Islamic Arabia (London: Variorum, 1998) –
collected studies
A.S. Tritton, The Caliphs and Their Non-Muslim Subjects: A Critical Study of the Covenant of
Umar (London: Frank Cass, 1930, repr. 1970)
On the “Constitution” of Medina
Said Amir Arjomand, “The Constitution of Medina: A Sociolegal Interpretation of Muhammad’s
Acts of Foundation of the Umma,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 41 (2009): 555-
75
Uri Rubin, “The ‘Constitution of Medina’: Some Notes,” Studia Islamica 61-62 (1985)
R.B. Serjeant, “The ‘Constitution of Medina’,” Islamic Quarterly 8/1-2 (1964)
A.J. Wensinck, Muhammad and the Jews of Medina, with an Excursus: Muhammad’s
Constitution of Medina, by Julius Wellhausen, ed. and trans. Wolfgang Behn (Freiburg: Klaus
Schwarz Verlag, 1975) – translation of classic late 19th-early 20th-century scholarship on this
topic

Abbasid-, Fatimid-, Ayyubid-, and Mamluk-era (including Geniza studies)

Camilla Adang, “Medieval Muslim Polemics against the Jewish Scriptures,” in Jacques
Waardenburg, ed., Muslim Perceptions of Other Religions: A Historical Survey (New York
and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 143-59
_____, Muslim Writers on Judaism and the Hebrew Bible from Ibn Rabban to Ibn Hazm
(Leiden: Brill, 1996)
Elinoar Bareket, Fustat on the Nile: The Jewish Elite in Medieval Egypt (Leiden: Brill, 1999)
Mark R. Cohen, Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt: The Origins of the Office of Head
of the Jews, ca. 1065-1126 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980)
Walter J. Fischel, Jews in the Economic and Political Life of Medieval Islam (London: Royal
Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland; distributed by Luzac and Co., 1968)
Daniel Frank, ed., The Jews of Medieval Islam: Community, Society, and Identity -
Proceedings
of an International Conference Held by the Institute of Jewish Studies, University College,
London, 1992 (Leiden, New York: Brill, 1995)
Moshe Gil, “The Radhanite Merchants and the Land of Radhan [Iraq-Iran],” Journal of the
Economic and Social History of the Orient 17 (1974): 299-328
S.D. Goitein, A Mediterranean Society, 6 vols. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967,
1971, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1991)
Henry Malter, Saadiah Gaon: His Life and Works, 2nd ed. (New York: Hermon Press, 1969
 [1926])
Jacob Mann, The Collected Articles of Jacob Mann, 3 vols. (Gedera: M. Shalom, 1971)
_____, The Jews in Egypt and Palestine under the Fatimid Caliphs: A Contribution to Their
Political and Communal History Based Chiefly on Genizah Material Hitherto Unpublished, 2
vols., preface and reader’s guide by S.D. Goitein (New York: Ktav Publishing House, 1970)
_____, The Responsa of the Babylonian Geonim as a Source of Jewish History (Tel Aviv: Zion,
1970)
_____, Texts and Studies in Jewish History and Literature, 2 vols. (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union
College Press, 1931-35; reprint with intro. by Gerson D. Cohen, New York: Ktav Publishing
House, 1972)
Stefan C. Reif, ed., with the assistance of Shulamit Reif, The Cambridge Genizah Collections:
Their Contents and Significance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)
Norman A. Stillman, “The Eleventh-Century Merchant House of Ibn Awkal (A Geniza Study),”
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 16 (1973): 15-88
Steven M. Wasserstrom, Between Muslim and Jew: The Problem of Symbiosis under Early
Islam (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995)
_____, “Heresiography of the Jews in Mamluk Times,” in Jacques Waardenburg, ed., Muslim
Perceptions of Other Religions: A Historical Survey (New York and Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1999), pp. 160-80

Karaites
Zvi Ankori, Karaites in Byzantium: The Formative Years, 970-1100 (New York: Columbia
University Press, 1959)
Philip Birnbaum, ed., Karaite Studies (New York: Hermon Press, 1971)
Daniel Frank, “Karaite Ritual,” in Lawrence Fine, ed., Judaism in Practice: From the Middle
Ages to the Present (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), pp. 248-64
_____, “Search Scripture Well”: Karaite Exegetes and the Origins of the Jewish Bible
Commentary in the Islamic East (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2004)
_____, “The Study of Medieval Karaism, 1989-1999,” in Nicholas de Lange, ed., Hebrew
Scholarship and the Medieval World (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 3-22

Maimonides
Lawrence V. Berman, “Maimonides, the Disciple of Alfārābī,” Israel
Oriental Studies 4 (1974):
154-78
Joseph A. Buijs, ed. and intro., Maimonides: A Collection of Critical Essays (Notre Dame, IN:
University of Notre Dame Press, 1988)
Robert S. Cohen and Hillel Levine, eds., Maimonides and the Sciences (Dordrecht, Germany,
and Boston: Kluwer Academic, 2000)
Herbert A. Davidson, Maimonides the Rationalist (Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish
Civilization, 2010)
Lenn E. Goodman, Jewish and Islamic Philosophy: Crosspollinations in the Classic Age (New
Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999)
Jay M. Harris, ed., Maimonides after 800 Years: Essays on Maimonides and His Influence
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies, distributed by Harvard
University Press, 2007)
Lawrence Kaplan, “Maimonides’ Laws of the Study of Torah,” in Lawrence Fine, ed., Judaism
 in Practice: From the Middle Ages to the Present (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
2001), pp. 171-85
Menachem Kellner, Maimonides’ Confrontation with Mysticism (Oxford: Littman Library of
Jewish Civilization, 2006)
Joel L. Kraemer, “The Life of Moses ben Maimon,” in Lawrence Fine, ed., Judaism in Practice:
From the Middle Ages to the Present (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), pp. 413-
28
_____, Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization’s Greatest Minds (New York:
Doubleday, 2008)
_____, ed., Perspectives on Maimonides: Philosophical and Historical Studies (Oxford:
Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1991)
Howard Kreisel, Maimonides’ Political Thought: Studies in Ethics, Law, and the Human
Ideal (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999)
T.M. Rudavsky, Maimonides (Chichester, West Sussex, U.K.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
Sarah Stroumsa, Maimonides in His World: Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2009)
Isidore Twersky, ed., Studies in Maimonides (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Center for
Jewish Studies, distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007)
David Yellin and Israel Abrahams, Maimonides: His Life and Works (New York: Hermon
Press, 1972)

Mysticism and messianism, including Sabbatai Sevi

Rachel Elior, Jewish Mysticism: The Infinite Expression of Freedom, trans. Yudith Nave and
Arthur B. MIllman (Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2007)
Lawrence Fine, “Benevolent Spirit Possession in 16th-Century Safed,” in Matt Goldish, ed.,
Spirit Possession in Judaism: Cases and Contexts from the Middle Ages to the Present
(Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003), pp. 101-22
_____, Physician of the Soul, Healer of the Cosmos: Isaac Luria and His Kabbalistic
Fellowship (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003)
_____, “Pietistic Customs from Safed,” in Lawrence Fine, ed., Judaism in Practice: From the
Middle Ages to the Present (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), pp. 375-85
_____, ed., Essential Papers on Kabbalah (New York: New York University Press, 1995)
Matt Goldish, “The Early Messianic Career of Shabbatai Zvi,” in Lawrence Fine, ed., Judaism in
Practice: From the Middle Ages to the Present (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001),
pp. 470-82
_____, The Sabbatean Prophets (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004)
_____, “Vision and Possession: Nathan of Gaza’s Earliest Prophecies in Historical Context,” in
Matt Goldish, ed., Spirit Possession in Judaism: Cases and Contexts from the Middle Ages to
the Present (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003), pp. 217-36
Jane Hathaway, “The Grand Vizier and the False Messiah: The Sabbatai Sevi Controversy and
the Ottoman Reform in Egypt,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 117/ 4 (1997): 665-
71
_____, “The Mawzac Exile [1679, Sabbatai Sevi-related] at the Juncture of Zaydi and Ottoman
Messianism,” Association for Jewish Studies Review 29/1 (2005): 111-28
Moshe Idel, Messianic Mystics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998)
Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman, “Jewish and Muslim Messianism in Yemen,” International Journal of
Middle East Studies 22 (1990): 201-28
Ada Rapoport-Albert, Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi, 1666-1816, trans.
Deborah Greniman (Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2010)
Marc Saperstein, ed., Essential Papers on Messianic Movements and Personalities in Jewish
History (New York: New York University Press, 1992)
Gerson Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, 3rd rev. ed. (New York: Schocken Books,
1961 [1954, 1946])
_____, Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626-1676, trans. R.J. Zwi Werblowsky
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973)
R.J. Zwi Werblowsky, Joseph Karo, Lawyer and Mystic (London: Oxford University Press,
1962)

Spain
Esperanza Alfonso, Islamic Culture through Jewish Eyes: Al-Andalus from the 10th to 12th
Century (London: Routledge, 2007)
Yom Tov Assis, The Golden Age of Aragonese Jewry: Community and Society in the Crown of
Aragon, 1213-1327(Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1997)
Eliyahu Ashtor, The Jews of Moslem Spain, trans. Aaron Klein and Jenny Machlowitz Klein, 3
vols. (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1973); 2 vols. (Philadelphia: JPS,
1992)
Salo W. Baron, A Social and Religious History of the Jews, 18 vols. (New York: Columbia
University Press, 1952-83), vols. 3-8, 17
Haim Beinart, The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain, trans. Jeffrey M. Green (Oxford: Littman
Library of Jewish Civilization, 2001)
_____, ed., Moreshet Sepharad: The Sephardi Legacy (Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, the
Hebrew University, 1992)
Miriam Bodian, Dying in the Law of Moses: Crypto-Jewish Martyrdom in the Iberian World
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007)
Paloma Díaz-Mas, Sephardim: The Jews from Spain, ed. and trans. George K. Zucker (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1992)
Elie Kedourie, ed., Spain and the Jews: The Sephardi Experience, 1492 and After (London:
Thames and Hudson, 1992)
Renée Levine Melammed, “Life-Cycle Rituals of Spanish Crypto-Jewish Women,” in Lawrence
Fine, ed., Judaism in Practice: From the Middle Ages to the Present (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2001), pp. 143-54
_____, “Visionary Experiences among Spanish Crypto-Jewish Women,” in Fine, ed., Judaism in
Practice, pp. 348-52
Mark D. Meyerson and Edward D. English, eds., Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval and
Early Modern Spain: Interaction and Cultural Change (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre
Dame Press, 1999)
B[enzion] Netanyahu, The Marranos [crypto-Jews] of Spain from the Late 14th to the Early 16th
Century (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999)
David Nirenberg, Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996)
Cecil Roth, A History of the Marranos (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America,
1947; reprint New York: Arno Press, 1975)
Marc Saperstein, “Jewish Preaching in 15th-Century Spain,” in Lawrence Fine, ed., Judaism in
Practice: From the Middle Ages to the Present (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001),
 pp. 325-39

North Africa (and Africa in general)

André N. Chouraqui, Between East and West: A History of the Jews of North Africa, trans.
Michael M. Bernet (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1968)
David Corcos, Studies in the History of the Jews of Morocco, intro. by Eliyahu Ashtor
(Jerusalem: Rubin Mass, 1976)
Jane Gerber, Jewish Society in Fez, 1450-1700: Studies in Communal and Economic Life
(Leiden: Brill 1980)
H.Z. Hirschberg, A History of the Jews in North Africa, trans. from the Hebrew, 2 vols., 2nd rev.
ed. (Leiden: Brill, 1974)
Richard Hull, Jews and Judaism in African History (Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers,
2009)
John Hunwick, ed. and trans., Jews of a Saharan Oasis (Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener
Publishers, 2009)

Yemen (see also “Mysticism and messianism”)

Reuben Ahroni, Yemenite Jewry: Origins, Culture, and Literature (Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1986)
Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman, The Jews of Yemen in the 19th Century: A Portrait of a Messianic
Community (Leiden: Brill, 1993)
Joseph (Yosef) Tobi, The Jews of Yemen: Studies in Their History and Culture (Leiden and
Boston: Brill, 1999)
Mark S. Wagner, Like Joseph in Beauty: Yemeni Vernacular Poetry and Arab-Jewish
Symbiosis
(Leiden: Brill, 2008)

Ottoman lands (excluding North Africa) (see also “Mysticism and messianism”)
Marc D. Angel, The Jews of Rhodes: The History of a Sephardi Community (New York:
Sepher-Hermon Press and the Union of Sephardic Congregations, 1978)
Zvi Ankori, “From Zudeha to Yahudi Mahallesi: The Jewish Quarter of Candia [Crete]
in the 17th Century,” in Saul Lieberman and Arthur Hyman, eds., Salo W. Baron Jubilee
Volume on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday (Jerusalem: American Academy for Jewish
Research; distributed by Columbia University Press, New York, 1975), vol. 1, pp. 63-127
Marc David Baer, The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks
(Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009)
_____, Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe (Oxford and
New York: Oxford University Press, 2007)
Esther Benbassa and Aron Rodrigue, Sephardi Jewry: A History of the Judeo-Spanish
Community, 14th-20th Centuries (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993, 1995)
Benjamin Braude and Bernard Lewis, eds., Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire, 2 vols.
(New York: Holms and Meier, 1982)
Amnon Cohen, Jewish Life under Islam: Jerusalem in the 16th Century (Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1984)
_____, A World Within: Jewish Life as Reflected in Muslim Court Documents from the Sijill
[Muslim court records] of Jerusalem (16th Century) (Philadelphia: Center for Judaic Studies,
University of Pennsylvania, 1994)
_____ and Bernard Lewis, Population and Revenue in the Towns of Palestine in the 16th Century
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978)
Mark Epstein, The Ottoman Jewish Communities and Their Role in the 15th and 16th Centuries
(Freiburg: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1980)
Morris Goodblatt, Jewish Life in Turkey in the 16th Century, As Reflected in the Legal Writings
of
Samuel de Medina (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1952)
Ruth Lamdan, A Separate People: Jewish Women in Palestine, Syria, and Egypt in the 16th
Century (Leiden: Brill, 2000)
Avigdor Levy, ed., The Jews of the Ottoman Empire (Princeton: Darwin Press, 1994)
_____, ed., Jews, Turks, Ottomans: A Shared History, 15th through the 20th Century (Syracuse:
Syracuse University Press, 2002)
Bruce Masters, Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Arab World: The Roots of Sectarianism
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)
Minna Rozen, A History of the Jewish Community in Istanbul: The Formative Years, 1453-
1566
(Leiden: Brill, 2002)
_____, Jewish Identity and Society in the 17th Century: Reflections on the Life and Work of
Refael Mordekhai Malki, trans. Goldie Wachsman (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1992)
Aron Rodrigue, ed., Ottoman and Turkish Jewry: Community and Leadership (Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1992)
Cecil Roth, The House of Nasi: Doña Gracia (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of
America, 1948)
_____, The House of Nasi: The Duke of Naxos (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of
America, 1948, 1992)
Stanford J. Shaw, The Jews of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic (New York: New
York University Press, 1991)
Aryeh Shmuelevitz, The Jews of the Ottoman Empire in the Late 15th and 16th Centuries (Leiden:
Brill, 1984)

“Crypto-Jews” in New Mexico and the Caribbean

Josette Capriles Goldish, Once Jews: Stories of Caribbean Sephardim (Princeton, NJ: Markus
Wiener Publishers, 2009)
Stanley M. Hordes, To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico
(New
York: Columbia University Press, 2008)
Seth D. Kunin, Identity and Authenticity among the Crypto-Jews (New York: Columbia
University Press, 2009)

PRIMARY SOURCES ON JEWS UNDER ISLAMIC RULE

General
Israel Abrahams, ed. and trans., Hebrew Ethical Wills (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society
of America, 1926), esp. Part 1
Elkan Nathan Adler, ed. and trans., Jewish Travellers: A Treasury of Travelogues from Nine
Centuries, 2nd ed., with intro. by Cecil Roth (New York: Hermon Press, 1966 [1930])
Bat Ye’or, ed. and trans., The Dhimmi, trans. David Maise, et al., revised ed. (Rutherford, NJ:
 Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1985)
Franz Kobler, ed. and trans., Letters of Jews through the Ages: From Biblical Times to the
Middle of the 18th Century, 2 vols. (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America,
1978)

Early Islam
Robert G. Hoyland, Seeing Islam as Others Saw It: A Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish,
and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 1997)

Medieval, including Geniza

Moshe Gil, ed. and trans., Documents of the Jewish Pious Foundations from the Cairo Geniza
(Leiden: Brill, 1976)
Richard Gottheil and William H. Worrell, Fragments from the Cairo Genizah in the Freer
Collection (New York, London: Macmillan, 1927)
Jacob R. Marcus, ed. and trans., The Jew in the Medieval World: A Source-Book, 315-1791
(Cincinnati: Sinai Press, 1938, rev. ed. 1999; repr. New York: Atheneum, 1977)
Sacadya Gaon (Baghdad, 882 or 92-942), Saadia’s Polemic against Hiwi al-Balkhi, ed. and trans.
Israel Davidson (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1915)
Solomon Schechter, ed. and trans., Saadyana: Geniza Fragments of Writings of R. Saadya Gaon
and Others (Cambridge: Deighton and Bell, 1903)
Joseph ben Meir Zabara (b. 1140?), The Book of Delight, trans. Moses Hadas (New York:
Columbia University Press, 1932) - belles lettres

Karaites
Abraham Danon, “Documents Relating to the History of the Karaites in European Turkey,”
Jewish Quarterly Review new series 17 (1926-27): 165-98, 239-322
Nissim ben Jacob ben Nissim ibn Shahin (Ibn Shahin, Karaite, 11th century), An Elegant
Composition concerning Relief after Adversity, trans. William M. Brinner (New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1977)
Jacob Mann, Texts and Studies in Jewish History and Literature, 2 vols. (Cincinnati: Hebrew
Union College Press, 1931-35; reprint with intro. by Gerson D. Cohen, New York: Ktav
Publishing House, 1972), vol. 2
Joshua A. Sabih, ed. and trans., Japheth ibn Ali’s Book of Jeremiah: A Critical Edition and
Linguistic Analysis of the Judaeo-Arabic Translation (London: Equinox Publishing, 2009)

Maimonides
Moses Maimonides (1135-1204), The Commandments: Sefer ha-Mitzvoth [Kitāb al-farā’id] of
Maimonides, ed. and trans. Charles B. Chavel (London and New York: Soncino Publishers,
1967)
_____, The Guide for the Perplexed, trans. M. Friedländer (London: George Routledge and
Sons; New York: E.P. Dutton, 1919; New York: Pardes Publishing House, 1946; New York:
Dover Publishers, 1956)
_____, The Guide for the Perplexed, trans. with intro. and notes by Shlomo Pines, introductory
essay by Leo Strauss (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963, 1974)
_____, Letters of Maimonides, ed. and trans. Leon D. Stitskin (New York: Yeshiva University
Press, 1977)
_____, A Maimonides Reader, ed. and trans. Isadore Twersky (New York: Behrman House,
 1972)
_____, Mishneh Torah, Hebrew text with English trans. by Eliyahu Tager, 102 (?) vols.
(Jerusalem, New York: Moznayim, 1986)
_____, Mishneh Torah: Maimonides’ Code of Law and Ethics, abridged and trans. Philip
Birnbaum (New York: Hebrew Publishing Co., 1974)
_____, The Preservation of Youth: Essays on Health, trans. with an intro. by Hirsch L. Gordon
(New York: Philosophical Library, 1958)

Spain
Bahya ben Joseph ibn Pakuda (Spain, 11th century), The Book of Direction to the Duties of the
Heart, ed. and trans. Menahem Mansoor (Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization,
1973) – Jewish ethics
Benjamin of Tudela (Spain, 12th century), The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela, ed. and trans.
Marcus Nathan Adler (New York: P. Feldheim, 196-)
_____, The World of Benjamin of Tudela: A Medieval Mediterranean Travelogue, ed. Sandra
Benjamin (Madison, WI: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London and Cranbury, NJ:
Associated University Presses, 1995)
Olivia Remie Constable, ed., Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish
Sources (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997)
David Goldstein, ed. and trans., Hebrew Poems from Spain (London: Routledge and Kegan
Paul, 1965); reprinted with revisions as The Jewish Poets in Spain, 900-1250 (Harmondsworth:
Penguin Books, 1971)
Judah ben Solomon al-Harizi (Spain, 1165-1225), The Book of Tahkemoni: Jewish Tales from
Medieval Spain, trans. and annotated David Simha Segal (Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish
Civilization, 2001) - belles lettres
_____, The Tahkemoni, trans. Victor Emmanuel Reichert, 2 vols. (Jerusalem: Raphael Haim
Cohen's Press, 1965-73)
Abraham ibn Daud (Spain, ca. 1110-80), Sefer ha-Qabbalah [Book of Tradition], ed. and trans.
Gerson D. Cohen (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1967)
Moses ibn Ezra (Spain, ca. 1060-1139), Selected Poems of Moses ibn Ezra, trans. Solomon
Solis-Cohen from text ed. Heinrich Brody (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of
America, 1934)
Solomon ibn Gabirol (Spain, ca. 1021-58), Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol,
trans. Israel Zangwill from text ed. Israel Davidson (New York: Arno Press, 1923, repr. 1973)
Sacd ibn Mansur ibn Kammuna (d. 1284), Ibn Kammuna’s Examination of the Three Faiths: A
13th-Century Essay in the Comparative Study of Religion, ed. and trans. Moshe Perlmann
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971)
Samuel ibn Nagrela (Spain, 993-1056), Jewish Prince in Moslem Spain: Selected Poems of
Samuel Ibn Nagrela, trans. Leon J. Weinberger (University, AL: University of Alabama Press,
1973)
Judah (Yehuda) ha-Levi (ca. 1075-1141), Selected Poems of Jehudah Ha-Levi, trans. Nina
Salaman from text ed. Heinrich Brody (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America,
1928, repr. 1974)

Ottoman (including Sabbatai Sevi)

Lawrence Fine, trans. and intro., Safed Spirituality: Rules of Mystical Piety, the Beginning of
Wisdom (New York: Paulist Press, 1984)
Matt Goldish, ed. and trans., Jewish Questions: Responsa on Sephardic Life in the Early
Modern Period (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008)
David J. Halperin, ed. and trans., Sabbatai Zevi: Testimonies to a Fallen Messiah (Oxford:
Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2007)
Uriel Heyd, ed. and trans., Ottoman Documents on Palestine, 1552-1615 (Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1960)
Yosef Karo (Safed, 1488-1575), Code of Hebrew Law: Shulhan cAruk, with glosses of Moses
Isserles, ed. and trans. Chaim N. Denburg, 2 vols. (Montreal: Jurisprudence Press, 1954- )
_____, Jewish Code of Jurisprudence: Talmudical Law Decisions, Civil, Criminal, and Social,
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