Under Crescent and Cross
The Jews in the Middle Ages
Did Muslims and Jews in the Middle Ages cohabit in a peaceful interfaith utopia? Or were Jews under Muslim rule persecuted, much as they were in Christian lands? Rejecting both polemically charged ideas as myths, Mark Cohen offers a systematic comparison of Jewish life in medieval Islam and Christendom--and 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.Under Crescent and Cross has been translated into Turkish, Hebrew, German, Arabic, French, and Spanish, and its historic message continues to be relevant across…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-691-13931-9
- EAN: 9780691139319
- Produktnummer: 19381677
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.1 cm 464 g
- Auflage: Revised ed
- Gewicht: 464
- Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)
Über den Autor
Mark R. Cohen is professor of Near Eastern studies at Princeton University. His books include Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt, The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi, and Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt (Princeton).
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