Under Crescent and Cross : : The Jews in the Middle Ages / / Mark R. Cohen.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION TO THE 2008 EDITION
- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION
- INTRODUCTION
- PART ONE Myth and Countermyth
- Chapter One MYTH AND COUNTERMYTH
- PART TWO In Religion and Law
- Chapter Two RELIGIONS IN CONFLICT
- Chapter Three THE LEGAL POSITION OF JEWS IN CHRISTENDOM
- Chapter Four THE LEGAL POSITION OF JEWS IN ISLAM
- PART THREE In the Economy
- Chapter Five THE ECONOMIC FACTOR
- PART FOUR In the Social Order
- Chapter Six HIERARCHY, MARGINALITY, AND ETHNICITY
- Chapter Seven THE JEW AS TOWNSMAN
- Chapter Eight SOCIABILITY
- PART FIVE Polemics and Persecution
- Chapter Nine INTERRELIGIOUS POLEMICS
- Chapter Ten PERSECUTION, RESPONSE, AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY
- CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- AFTERWORD: A PARADIGM
- INDEX