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Chinese porcelain and the material taxonomies of medieval Rabbinic law: encounters with disruptive substances in
(Article)This article focuses on a set of legal questions about sini vessels (literally, "Chinese" vessels) sent from the Jewish community in Aden to Fustat (Old Cairo) in the mid-1130s CE and now preserved among the Cairo genius ...