Muslim-Jewish relations in the Middle Islamic period : : Jews in the Ayyubid and Mamluk Sultanates (1171-1517) / / Stephan Conermann (editor).

• Superior document: Mamluk Studies,
• TeilnehmendeR: Conermann, Stephan,
• Place / Publishing House: Gottingen, [Germany] : : V&R Unipress :, Bonn University Press,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Mamluk studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (199 pages) :; illustrations.

"This book contributes to the history of medieval Jewry in general, as a basis for a comparative study of the position of the Jews in Christian Europe in the Late Middle Ages. The eight articles written by leading experts on this topic pay special attention to the following issues: the measure of tolerance of the Mamluk rulers and the Muslim populace toward the Jews; Jews in government positions and as court physicians; conversion and attitudes toward converted Jews; the Sufi (mystical) nature of Jewish leadership and its relation to the Sufi Islamic discourse; professional, intellectual and legal interactions between Jews and Muslims. In the end, the contributions help us to sharpen our understanding of Jewish life during the Middle Islamic Period in the Near East"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Being a Jew under the Mamluks: Some Coping Strategies / Dotan Arad -- Suifs and Jews in Mamluk Egypt / Paul B. Fenton -- Eliyahu Ashtor - A Forgotten Pioneer Researcher of Jewish History under the Mamluks / Miriam Frenkel -- Conversion Stories from the Mamluk Period /Yehoshua Frenkel -- The Ideology of Decline and the Jews of Ayyubid and Mamluk Syria / Nathan Hofer -- Healer, Scholar, Conspirator. The Jewish Physician in the Arabic-Islamic Discourse of the Mamluk Period / Paulina B. Lewicka -- Earthquake, Famine, and Plague in Early Thirteenth-Century Egypt: Muslim and Jewish Sources / Elisha Russ-Fishbane -- The Status of the Bible in 9th/15th Century Cair0: The Fatwas collected by al-Biqāʻī (d.885/1480) / Walid A. Saleh.