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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... rulers (with notable exceptions, to be sure) normally exercised due process before “punishing” a non-Muslim for alleged violations of the Pact. In this connection, Lewis notes an important contrast with the fate of the Jews in Christian ...
... rulers preferred their unquestionably loyal services to those of their Greek, Armenian, and Christian Arab subjects. On the whole, the interaction of Jews and Turks did not exhibit the cultural symbiosis of the classical period ...
... rulers or leaders worthy to rank with Cotton Mather or Torquemada and thus demonstrate Christian tol erance. Other, more subtle, forms of loaded comparisons can be achieved by comparing discrepant times, places, and situations. For ...
... ruler of Medina, the Prophet came into conflict with the three resident Jewish tribes. All three were overcome and, according to the Muslim tradition, two were given the choice between conversion and exile, and the third, the Banū ...
... ruler of the community of Medina, the Prophet had Jewish subjects; as sovereign of the Islamic state he had relations with both Christian Something of this sense of kinship can be discerned, at ISLAM AND OTHER RELIGIONS □ II.
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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 |