Jews, Visigoths and Muslims in Medieval Spain : : Cooperation and Conflict / / Norman Roth.

• Superior document: European History and Culture - Book Archive pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Roth, Norman,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 1994.; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 1994
• Language: English
• Series: European History and Culture - Book Archive pre-2000.; Medieval Iberian Peninsula ; 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 pages) :; illustrations.

Jews settled in medieval Spain at least by the third century, and under the Christian Visigoths (sixth to eighth centuries) suffered increasing hostility and persecution, from which they were saved by the Muslim invasion (711). This book details the relations between Jews and the Visigoths, and then with the Muslims both in Muslim Spain proper (al-Andalus) and in later Christian Spain to the fifteenth century. It examines both the positive and negative aspects of those relations, drawing on a variety of sources many of which are here utilized for the first time. Political, socio-economic, scientific, cultural, literary and even sexual aspects of the history of the interaction between Jews and Visigoths, and Jews and Muslims, provide hopefully a new insight into a period of great importance in history.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Norman Roth -- Introduction / Norman Roth -- Chapter One The Jews in Visigothic Spain / Norman Roth -- Chapter Two Muslim Spain / Norman Roth -- Chapter Three Jews under Umayyads and Taifas / Norman Roth -- Chapter Four Jews and Muslims under Almoravids, Almohads and Christians / Norman Roth -- Chapter Five Cities, Economy and Slavery / Norman Roth -- Chapter Six Jews and Muslims: Cooperation and Conflict / Norman Roth -- Chapter Seven Jewish Polemic against Islam / Norman Roth -- Notes / Norman Roth -- Glossary / Norman Roth -- Abbreviations / Norman Roth -- Bibliography / Norman Roth -- Index / Norman Roth -- Terms Discussed / Norman Roth.