The Jews of Islam: Updated EditionPrinceton University Press, 28 בספט׳ 2014 - 272 עמודים This landmark book probes Muslims' attitudes toward Jews and Judaism as a special case of their view of other religious minorities in predominantly Muslim societies. With authority, sympathy and wit, Bernard Lewis demolishes two competing stereotypes: the Islamophobic picture of the fanatical Muslim warrior, sword in one hand and Qur'ān in the other, and the overly romanticized depiction of Muslim societies as interfaith utopias. |
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... Qur'an identifies as “People of the Book.” Lewis's choice of framework for this chapter may have been a response to two works about the non-Muslims he cites in the very first note, one in French (subsequently translated into English ...
... (Qur'an 2:256). They thereby effectively put an end to Christianity in North Africa. The Jews, who returned to open profession of Judaism after Almohad zealotry died down, remained the only dhimmĩs on the scene, losing some of the ...
... Qur'an in the other, offering his victims the choice between the two. This picture, made famous by Edward Gibbon1 in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, is not only false but impossible—unless we are to assume a race of left ...
... Qur'an. This is what might be called the original Islam, a set of doctrines and commandments that is the basis and also the starting point of the religion known by that name. But the word “Islam,” like the word “Christianity,” is also ...
... Qur'an and the Muslim tradition tell us about Muhammad's dealings with the Jews of Medina and of the northern Hijaz, with the Christians of Najrān in the south and some other Christians in the north, and with the pagans who constituted ...
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TWO The JudaeoIslamic Tradition | 71 |
THREE The Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods | 107 |
FOUR The End of the Tradition | 154 |
NOTES | 193 |
INDEX | 227 |