Moshe Gil

Moshe Gil ( born February 8, 1921 in Białystok, † January 2014 in Tel Aviv) was an Israeli medievalist and economic historian.

Life

Moshe Gil grew up in Romania. During the Second World War he worked in the underground movement until he was convicted in 1942 along with a group of friends to 25 years in prison. Of this, however, he served until the war ended only two years.

At the age of 24 years Gil emigrated to Israel. For forty years he lived in Kibbutz Beit She'an. Together with his wife Susanna he had three daughters, who in turn brought nine grandchildren to the world.

In 1965 he began studying at the University of Tel Aviv and began a belated academic career. It dealt with issues of Roman agricultural policy, but soon he took the history of the Jews in the early Islamic world into view. His doctoral dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia under the direction of Shlomo Dov Goitein looked at the documents of the Cairo Geniza.

Moshe Gil was appointed professor at the Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies at the University of Tel Aviv. He was also owner of the Joseph and Ceil Mazer Chair in the History of the Jews in Muslim Lands.

He dealt in the course of his research and publication activities with the interaction between early Islam and the Jews, moreover, with the establishment of Exilarchats, with Jewish merchants such as the Radhaniten and the role of Jews in Mecca. His main work, the History of Palestine, 634-1099 apply.

Publications

  • The Constitution of Medina: A Reconsideration, in: Israel oriental studies 4 (1974 ), pp. 44-65.
  • The Radhanite Merchants and the Land of Radhan, in: Journal of the economic and social history of the Orient 17 (1974 ), pp. 299-328.
  • Documents of the Jewish pious foundations from the Cairo Geniza, Brill, Leiden 1976.
  • The Origin of the Jews of Yathrib, in: Jerusalem studies in Arabic and Islam, 4 (1984 ), pp. 203-224.
  • The Medinan opposition to the Prophet, in: Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 10 (1987 ), pp. 65-96.
  • A History of Palestine, 634-1099, Cambridge University Press 1992, 1997.
  • The Exilarchate, in: 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 in 1992, 1992, pp. 33-65.
  • The Babylonian Encounter and the Exilarchic House in the Light of Cairo Geniza Documents and parallel Arab Sources, in: N. Golb (ed.): Judaeo - Arabic studies proceedings of the Founding Conference of the Society for Judaeo Arabic Studies, Harwood Academic Publishers 1997.
  • Related Worlds. Studies in Jewish and Arab Ancient and Early Medieval History, Ashgate, 2004.
  • With Eliezer Ben- Rafael, Yochanan Peres: Jews in Islamic Countries in the Middle Ages, Brill, Leiden, 2011.
  • Medieval historian
  • Economic historian
  • University teachers (Jerusalem)
  • Israeli
  • Born 1921
  • Man
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