Mark R. Cohen

Under Crescent and Cross (eBook, ePUB)

The Jews in the Middle Ages

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 and Christendom--and the first in-depth explanation of why medieval Islamic-Jewish relations, though not utopic, were less confrontational and violent than those between Christians and Jews in the West.

Under Crescent and Cross has been translated into Turkish, Hebrew, German, Arabic, French, and Spanish, and its historic message continues to be relevant across continents and time. This updated edition, which contains an important new introduction and afterword by the author, serves as a great companion to the original.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781400844333
• Artikelnr.: 61100096

Autorenporträt

Mark R. Cohen With a new introduction and afterword by the author

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
Ch. 1
Myth and Countermyth
3
Ch. 2
Religions in Conflict
17
Ch. 3
The Legal Position of Jews in Christendom
30
Ch. 4
The Legal Position of Jews in Islam
52
Ch. 5
The Economic Factor
77
Ch. 6
Hierarchy, Marginality, and Ethnicity
107
Ch. 7
The Jew as Townsman
121
Ch. 8
Sociability
129
Ch. 9
Interreligious Polemics
139
Ch. 10
Persecution, Response and Collective Memory
162
Conclusion
195
Notes
201
Index
271