The Divergence of Judaism and Islam

by Laskier, Michael M.; Lev, Yaacov

• ISBN13: 9780813037516
• ISBN10: 0813037514
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-12-11
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Florida

Summary

Relations between Jews and Muslims were primarily peaceful during the medieval and early modern periods. But as the essays in this volume demonstrate, centuries of respectful coexistence deteriorated quickly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, leading to the tensions with which we are more familiar today.

Author Biography

Michael M. Laskier, professor of Middle Eastern studies and director of the Menachem Begin Center and Endowed Chair for the Study of Resistance Movements at Bar-flan University, is the author or editor of numerous books including North African Jewry in the Twentieth Century, winner of the U.S. National Jewish Book Award. Yaacov Lev, professor of Islamic medieval history and chair of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at Bar-Ilan University, is the author of Charity, Endowments, and Charitable Institutions in Medieval Islam.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Common Interests versus Latent and Overt Tensions
Ottoman Attitudes toward the Modernization of Jewish Education in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries	p. 17
"Zeal and Noise": Jewish Imperial Allegiance and the Greco-Ottoman War of 1897	p. 29
Sharing the Same Fate: Muslims and Jews of the Balkans	p. 51
"We Don't Want to Be the Jews of Tomorrow": Jews and Turks in Germany after 9/11	p. 74
Jews and Muslims "Downunder": Emerging Dialogue and Challenges	p. 97
Socioeconomic and Political Interaction in Arab Lands and Central Asia: Toward Jewish Immigration
Yemen: Muslim and Jewish Interactions in the Tribal Sphere	p. 125
In Search of Jewish Farmers: Jews, Agriculture, and the Land in Rural Morocco	p. 143
The Moroccan Nationalist Movement and Its Attitude toward Jews and Zionism	p. 160
Jewish-Muslim Relations in Libya	p. 173
Where Have All the Jews Gone? Mass Migration from Independent Uzbekistan	p. 199
In the Shadow of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: History, Ideology, and Political Strategy
Issues of Jewish History as Reflected in Modern Egyptian Historiography	p. 227
The Road Not Taken: Ishaq Musa al-Husseini and His Chickens	p. 254
Space as a Demon and the Demon in the Space: Jewish-Muslim Relations in the Israeli Space in A. B. Yehoshua's Literary Works	p. 270
Interreligious Dialogue and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An Empirical View	p. 288
Zionism and Judeo-Islamic Relations in the Middle East: Libya's Ideological and Political Position	p. 306
List of Contributors	p. 329
Index	p. 337
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