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FA-53232-07	Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers	Mark R. Cohen	Maimonides’ Code and the Social and Economic Realities of the Medieval Islamic World	8/1/2007 - 7/31/2008	$40,000.00	Mark	R.	Cohen				Princeton University	Princeton	NJ	08540-5228	USA	2006	Medieval Studies	Fellowships for University Teachers	Research Programs	40000	0	40000	0	I propose to apply the test of the documents from everyday life in the famous Cairo Geniza to Maimonides’ legal code in order to determine to what extent his work quietly adjusts tradition to reality. I seek to uncover examples of legal rulings (halakhot) where Maimonides adapts Talmudic law to social and economic realities of Jewish life [in] the Islamic world in which he lived.