History as Prelude

Muslims and Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean
Herausgeber: Montville, Joseph V.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays by seven scholars is a straightforward narrative of real world-intellectual, commercial, spiritual, philosophical, scientific, esthetic-creative engagement among Jews, Muslims, and some Christians in daily life in Spain and around the Mediterranean. History as Prelude is a major contribution to the Israeli-Arab peace process because it undermines-in fact, blows away-the efforts of propagandists who serve governments or political movements to negate the reality of the Arab-Jewish relationship in the medieval Mediterranean. The contributors, in unassuming, well-researched scholarship have erected a wall protecting historical reality from distortion, providing irrefutable-and often delightful-examples of creative coexistence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 501g
• ISBN-13: 9780739168141
• ISBN-10: 0739168142
• Artikelnr.: 34012257

Autorenporträt

Edited by Joseph V. Montville - Contributions by Mark R. Cohen; Olivia Remie Constable; Ahmad Dallal; Thomas F. Glick; Diana Lobel; Kathryn A. Miller; Joseph V. Montville and Raymond P. Scheindlin

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface: Recovering History: A Psychodynamic Approach to
Peacemaking Chapter 2 1. Jewish and Islamic Life in the Middle Ages:
Through the Window of the Cairo Geniza Chapter 3 2. Sharing Science: Jews,
Muslims and Practical Science in the Medieval Islamic World Chapter 4 3.
"The Battle of Alfuente" by Samuel the Nagid Chapter 5 4. On Muslim
Curiosity and the Historiography of the Jews of Yemen Chapter 6 5. Doctors
without Borders: Medicine in the Mediterranean World Chapter 7 6. Merchants
and Cross-Cultural Commerce in the Medieval Mediterranean World Chapter 8
7. Sufism and Philosophy in Muslim Spain and the Medieval Mediterranean
World