The Jews in Egypt The Era of the Mamluk Sultans: A study of Their Economic and Social Conditions
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The Jews lived in Egypt side by side with the Muslims and Christians, and they were in accordance with Islamic law that secured them as being from the dhimmis and the duty to protect their money, conditions and temples rests with the Muslims, in exchange for paying tribute to the house of money, and the Jews' trade flourished in the era of the Mamluks and owned lands. The duty of protecting their palaces and even neighborhoods on the Muslims. They were an effective component of the Islamic community, although the Mamluk sultans were between one period and the other, bringing them at one time and keeping them away at other times according to their interests and personal abilities, which generated a kind of bullying among many of them, especially after raising the sums of tribute between one year and another and their exhaustion by paying the money whenever the Mamluks entered a battle or prepared for a military campaign, this prompted many Jews to leave the Egyptian territories towards the countries of Morocco, Abyssinia, and Christian kingdoms in Italy and Europe at a time when those who remained in Egypt cooperated with the Ottomans who were less strict than the Mamluks with the Jews.
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