Religiously mixed families in the Mediterranean society of the Cairo Geniza

IF 0.5 2区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Moshe Yagur
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Documents of various genres from the Cairo Geniza from the eleventh to thirteenth centuries, as well as contemporary legal queries to rabbinic figures, attest to the phenomenon of mixed-faith families among the Jewish communities of the Islamic Mediterranean. In most of these cases known to us, the husbands were Jewish apostates, probably converts to Islam, while their wives remained loyal to Judaism. This social reality was enabled by the legal feasibility of such marriages in both Jewish and Islamic law, as well as the general tendency in the Jewish communities under Islam to maintain social, professional, and familial contacts with apostates from Judaism. This laxity eased the social effects of conversion, and even left the door open for a possible later return of the apostate into the Jewish fold. The existence of religiously mixed families also meant that children of such families found themselves in a unique liminal position, torn between two religions. These children were encouraged by family and community members to embrace Jewish identity despite the conversion of one of their parents; the same was true even of children of couples who had both converted.
开罗精灵地中海社会的宗教混合家庭
从11世纪到13世纪的开罗精灵的各种类型的文件,以及对拉比人物的当代法律质疑,都证明了伊斯兰地中海犹太社区中信仰混合的家庭现象。在我们所知的大多数情况下,丈夫都是犹太叛教者,可能皈依了伊斯兰教,而他们的妻子仍然忠于犹太教。这一社会现实是由于犹太和伊斯兰法律中此类婚姻的法律可行性,以及伊斯兰教下的犹太社区与犹太教叛教者保持社会、职业和家庭联系的普遍趋势。这种松懈缓解了皈依的社会影响,甚至为后来叛教者重返犹太社会敞开了大门。宗教混合家庭的存在也意味着这些家庭的孩子发现自己处于一个独特的边缘地位,在两种宗教之间左右为难。家庭和社区成员鼓励这些儿童接受犹太身份,尽管他们的父母之一已经皈依;即使是双方都皈依了基督教的夫妇的子女也是如此。
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