Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture

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Much of what we know about life in the medieval Islamic Middle East comes from texts written to impart religious ideals or to chronicle the movements of great men. How did women participate in the societies these texts describe What about non-Muslims, whose own religious traditions descended partly from pre-Islamic late antiquity Coming of Age

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"Winner of the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History and Culture, Association for Jewish Studies"
"Winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Womens Studies (Barbara Dobkin Award)"
"Finalist for the Dionisius A. Agius Book Prize, Society for the Medieval Mediterranean"
"Finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship (Nahum Sarna Memorial Award)"
"Honorable Mention for the 2018 AAR Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies, American Academy of Religion"
"One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018"
"Eve Krakowskis masterful new book . . . presents an impressive cascade of new insights regarding the Jewish community in old Cairotheir concerns, negotiations, and accommodations with the dominant Fatimid society."---Amit Gvaryahu, Marginalia
"Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt is an excellent book based on solid research and replete with brilliant insights. It marks a new, groundbreaking phase in the historical study of the Geniza society and constitutes a major contribution to the social and legal history of Islamicate cultures as well as to gender studies more generally."---Miriam Frenkel, Al-Masq

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Eve Krakowski is assistant professor of Near Eastern Studies and Judaic Studies at Princeton University.