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The Jews in Medieval Egypt
Jewish life in medieval Egypt, hitherto an obscure and understudied theme, is revealed in this volume in all its complexity and richness. This book offers the most recent scholarship on the communal, judicial, economic, lingual, familial, and spiritual aspects of Jewish life medieval Islamic Egypt.
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THE FORCED CONVERSION OF JEWISH ORPHANS IN YEMEN
Reports emanating from Yemen as early as the 1920s indicated that local Jews were subjected
to a unique statute, known in Jewish sources as the “Orphans' Decree.” This
law obligated the Yemeni (Zaydi) state to take custody of dhimmi children who had
been orphaned, usually of both parents, and to raise them as Muslims. The statute, anchored in
18th-century Zaydi legal interpretations and put into practice at the end of that century, has no
parallel in other countries.1 S. D. Goitein suggests that the legal basis for this
religious interpretation rested on the hadith: “Every person is born to the natural religion
[Islam], and only his parents make a Jew or a Christian out of him”
(Muhammad al-Bukhari 82, 3).2
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