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Cairo Geniza
The Cairo Geniza is a collection of some 400,000 manuscript fragments kept in the storeroom (geniza) of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Fustat, Old Cairo, where worn writings bearing the name of God were laid aside rather than destroyed. Its letters, contracts and accounts, mostly from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries, are a major source for Mediterranean and Indian Ocean trade and Jewish life in the medieval Islamic world.
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