[PDF.09ig] Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages

Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages

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 | #1399108 in Books |  Princeton University Press |  1994-05-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.75 x6.50 x1.00l, | File type: PDF | 304 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Interfaith Utopia? Hardly!|By Hawkeye|This work is a complete, scholarly, and impressive contribution to medieval and Jewish history. It is thoroughly readable and buttressed by extensive research which represents approximately 25% of the text. Mark Cohen provides a detailed systematic comparison of Jewish life in Medieval Christendom and Islamic lands divided into a five par|From Publishers Weekly|Jews in the medieval Muslim world faced much less violence and persecution than the Jews of European Christendom, concludes Cohen in this dense, highly rewarding comparative study. Under Islam, he writes, Jews, though considered infidels a

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 "myths," Mark Cohen offers a systematic comparison of Jewish life in medieval Islam and Christendom--the first in-depth explanation of why medieval Islamic-Jewish relations, though not utopic, were less confrontational and violent than those between Christians and J...

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