Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages

Type

Book

Authors

Mark R. Cohen

ISBN 10

0691033781

ISBN 13

9780691033785

Tags

Europe, Jewish, Christianity, History

Description

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 Jews in the West. - from Amzon

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