Jews of Islam

Bernard Lewis is the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, a long-term member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and the author of numerous works on the Middle East. Mark R. Cohen is the Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor Emeritus of Jewish Civilization in the Near East at Princeton.

"An elegant and masterly survey. It is a measure of Mr. Lewis's gift for synthesis that all the many findings of recent sholarship, including his own in the Turkish archives, are made to fit into a coherent and plausible pattern."--New York Times Book Review "Lewis refuses ... simplistic approaches and tries to explain the complex and often contradictory history of Jewish-Muslim relations over fourteen hundred years. He does this in prose that combines eloquence, dispassion, and wit."--Norman A. Stillman, New York Review of Books "[A] pioneering and masterful primer."--Jacob Neusner, Boston Globe

• Contents NOTE ON ILLUSTRATIONS viii FOREWORD ix FOREWORD TO THE PRINCETON CLASSICS EDITION xiii ONE Islam and Other Religions 3 TWO The Judaeo-Islamic Tradition 67 THREE The Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods 107 FOUR The End of the Tradition 154 NOTES 193 INDEX 227