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The exacerbation of Arab-Israeli conflict at the time of the Six-Day War in 1967 gave birth in some quarters to a radical revision of Jewish-Arab history. At stake was the longstanding, originally Jewish, "myth of the interfaith utopia" in which medieval Muslims and Jews peacefully cohabited in Arab lands - a utopia that many Arabs claimed had continued until the emergence of modern Zionism.
Some Jewish writers challenged this notion with a "countermyth of Islamic persecution," suggesting that Jews fared not much better socially and politically under Islamic rule than they did under Christendom. Full of implications for Jewish, Islamic, and European historians, both myths form the backdrop of this provocative book aimed at enriching our understanding of medieval gentile-Jewish relations.
Addressing general readers and specialists alike, Mark Cohen offers the first in-depth explanation of why medieval Islamic-Jewish relations, though not utopic, were less confrontational and violent than those between Christians and Jews in the West.
Cohen presents a systematic comparison of the legal, economic, and social situations of Jews in medieval Islam and Christendom, offering particularly fresh insights on issues of hierarchy, marginality, and ethnicity and on the topic of persecution and collective memory. His analysis includes differences in theology that helped influence the way Muslims and Christians treated Jews.
Written for a broad audience, this book draws on many salient primary sources, which let the voices of medieval Islam, Christendom, and the Jews speak for themselves.
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Judaism, Jews, Relations, Christianity, Islam, Christianity and other religions, History, Interfaith relations, Medieval and early modern period, Jews, history, 70-1789, Joden, Christendom, Interreligiöse Beziehung, Judíos, Cristianismo y otras religiones, Judaísmo, Judaïsme, Christentum, Interreligiöser Dialog, Histoire, Juifs, Judentum, Historia, Relaciones, Christianisme, Judaism, relations, christianity, Judaism, relations, islam, Judaism, history, Islam, relations, judaism, Christianity and other religions, judaismShowing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
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Be-tsel ha-sahar ṿeha-tselav: ha-Yehudim bi-yeme ha-benayim
2001, Hotsaʼat ha-sefarim shel Universiṭaṭ Ḥefah, Zemorah-Bitan
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Under crescent and cross: the Jews in the Middle Ages
1996, Princeton University Press
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Under Crescent and Cross
October 2, 1995, Princeton University Press
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Under crescent and cross: the Jews in the Middle Ages
1994, Princeton University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-269) and index.
Spine title: Under crescent & cross.
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This study seeks to explain why Islamic-Jewish and Christian-Jewish relations followed such different courses in the Middle Ages. Its purpose is to go beyond the facile assertion that Jews lived more securely in the medieval Arab-Islamic world than under Christendom. They did. My goal is to explain how and why and thereby foster deeper understanding of Jewish-gentile relations in the medieval diaspora. - Preface.
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