Paradigms of Arabic Modes in the Genizah Fragment Cambridge T.S. N.S. 90,4

The unique collection of medieval writings from the Cairo Genizah is an inexhaustible source of information on almost every branch of science and art. Through it, modern research has been able to draw a fairly detailed picture of family life, education, public affairs, commerce, medicine, poetry and learned studies in the Jewish community of old Cairo (Fostat) and other towns of medieval Egypt. Research workers specializing in this field have developed such a feeling of intimacy with the life and manners of that remote community that they have acquired the habit of speaking familiarly of the 'Genizah Folk.'