Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World – serie
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Church in the Shadow of the Mosque
Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam
Häftad, 2010
620 kr
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Amid so much twenty-first-century talk of a "Christian-Muslim divide"--and the attendant controversy in some Western countries over policies toward minority Muslim communities--a historical fact has gone unnoticed: for more than four hundred years beginning in the mid-seventh century, some 50 …
Defining Neighbors
Religion, Race, and the Early Zionist-Arab Encounter
Häftad, 2016
668 kr
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As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict persists, aspiring peacemakers continue to search for the precise territorial dividing line that will satisfy both Israeli and Palestinian nationalist demands. The prevailing view assumes that this struggle is nothing more than a dispute over real estate. …
Reckless Rites
Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence
Häftad, 2008
412 kr
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Historical accounts of Jewish violence--particularly against Christians--have long been explosive material. Some historians have distorted these records for anti-Semitic purposes. Others have discounted, dismissed, or simply ignored the evidence, often for apologetic purposes. In Reckless Rites, …
Curse of Ham
Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Häftad, 2005
471 kr
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How old is prejudice against black people? Were the racist attitudes that fueled the Atlantic slave trade firmly in place 700 years before the European discovery of sub-Saharan Africa? In this groundbreaking book, David Goldenberg seeks to discover how dark-skinned peoples, especially black …
Mirror of His Beauty
Feminine Images of God from the Bible to the Early Kabbalah
Häftad, 2004
429 kr
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In this beautifully realized study, Peter Schafer investigates the origins of a female manifestation of God in Jewish mysticism. The search itself is a fascinating exploration of the idea of a feminine divinity. And Schafer's surprising but persuasive conclusions yield deeper understanding of the …
Beautiful Death
Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France
Inbunden, 2002
987 kr
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When Crusader armies on their way to the Holy Land attacked Jewish communities in the Rhine Valley, many Jews chose suicide over death at the hands of Christian mobs. With their defiant deaths, the medieval Jewish martyr was born. With the literary commemoration of the victims, Jewish martyrology …
Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt
Inbunden, 2005
1535 kr
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What was it like to be poor in the Middle Ages? In the past, the answer to this question came only from institutions and individuals who gave relief to the less fortunate. This book, by one of the top scholars in the field, is the first comprehensive book to study poverty in a premodern Jewish …
Shared World
Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Av Molly Greene
Häftad, 2002
441 kr
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Here Molly Greene moves beyond the hostile "Christian" versus "Muslim" divide that has colored many historical interpretations of the early modern Mediterranean, and reveals a society with a far richer set of cultural and social dynamics. She focuses on Crete, which the Ottoman Empire wrested from …
Imperialism and Jewish Society
200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E.
Häftad, 2004
511 kr
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This provocative new history of Palestinian Jewish society in antiquity marks the first comprehensive effort to gauge the effects of imperial domination on this people. Probing more than eight centuries of Persian, Greek, and Roman rule, Seth Schwartz reaches some startling conclusions--foremost …
Mothers and Children
Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe
Häftad, 2007
441 kr
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This book presents a synthetic history of the family--the most basic building block of medieval Jewish communities--in Germany and northern France during the High Middle Ages. Concentrating on the special roles of mothers and children, it also advances recent efforts to write a comparative …
Handless Maiden
Moriscos and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Spain
Häftad, 2007
412 kr
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In 1502, a decade of increasing tension between Muslims and Christians in Spain culminated in a royal decree that Muslims in Castile wanting to remain had to convert to Christianity. Mary Elizabeth Perry uses this event as the starting point for a remarkable exploration of how Moriscos, converted …
In the Shadow of the Virgin
Inquisitors, Friars, and Conversos in Guadalupe, Spain
Häftad, 2008
389 kr
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On June 11, 1485, in the pilgrimage town of Guadalupe, the Holy Office of the Inquisition executed Alonso de Paredes--a converted Jew who posed an economic and political threat to the town's powerful friars--as a heretic. Wedding engrossing narratives of Paredes and other figures with astute …
Scandal of Kabbalah
Leon Modena, Jewish Mysticism, Early Modern Venice
Av Yaacob Dweck
Inbunden, 2011
564 kr
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The Scandal of Kabbalah is the first book about the origins of a culture war that began in early modern Europe and continues to this day: the debate between kabbalists and their critics on the nature of Judaism and the meaning of religious tradition. From its medieval beginnings as an esoteric form …
Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain
Häftad, 2010
389 kr
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This book significantly revises the conventional view that the Jewish experience in medieval Spain--over the century before the expulsion of 1492--was one of despair, persecution, and decline. Focusing on the town of Morvedre in the kingdom of Valencia, Mark Meyerson shows how and why Morvedre's …
Resisting History
Historicism and Its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought
Häftad, 2010
378 kr
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Nineteenth-century European thought, especially in Germany, was increasingly dominated by a new historicist impulse to situate every event, person, or text in its particular context. At odds with the transcendent claims of philosophy and--more significantly--theology, historicism came to be …
Power in the Portrayal
Representations of Jews and Muslims in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Islamic Spain
Av Ross Brann
Häftad, 2010
336 kr
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Power in the Portrayal unveils a fresh and vital perspective on power relations in eleventh- and twelfth-century Muslim Spain as reflected in historical and literary texts of the period. Employing the methods of the new historical literary study in looking at a range of texts, Ross Brann reveals …
Religious Enlightenment
Protestants, Jews, and Catholics from London to Vienna
Av David Sorkin
Häftad, 2011
429 kr
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In intellectual and political culture today, the Enlightenment is routinely celebrated as the starting point of modernity and secular rationalism, or demonized as the source of a godless liberalism in conflict with religious faith. In The Religious Enlightenment, David Sorkin alters our …
Maimonides in His World
Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker
Häftad, 2011
336 kr
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While the great medieval philosopher, theologian, and physician Maimonides is acknowledged as a leading Jewish thinker, his intellectual contacts with his surrounding world are often described as related primarily to Islamic philosophy. Maimonides in His World challenges this view by revealing him …
Lost Archive
Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue
Inbunden, 2020
513 kr
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A compelling look at the Fatimid caliphate's robust culture of documentationThe lost archive of the Fatimid caliphate (909–1171) survived in an unexpected place: the storage room, or geniza, of a synagogue in Cairo, recycled as scrap paper and deposited there by medieval Jews. Marina Rustow tells …
Cultural Exchange
Jews, Christians, and Art in the Medieval Marketplace
Inbunden, 2013
537 kr
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Demonstrating that similarities between Jewish and Christian art in the Middle Ages were more than coincidental, Cultural Exchange meticulously combines a wide range of sources to show how Jews and Christians exchanged artistic and material culture. Joseph Shatzmiller focuses on communities in …
Living Together, Living Apart
Rethinking Jewish-Christian Relations in the Middle Ages
Häftad, 2013
234 kr
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This book challenges the standard conception of the Middle Ages as a time of persecution for Jews. Jonathan Elukin traces the experience of Jews in Europe from late antiquity through the Renaissance and Reformation, revealing how the pluralism of medieval society allowed Jews to feel part of their …
Scandal of Kabbalah
Leon Modena, Jewish Mysticism, Early Modern Venice
Av Yaacob Dweck
Häftad, 2013
302 kr
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The Scandal of Kabbalah is the first book about the origins of a culture war that began in early modern Europe and continues to this day: the debate between kabbalists and their critics on the nature of Judaism and the meaning of religious tradition. From its medieval beginnings as an esoteric form …
Bible in Arabic
The Scriptures of the "People of the Book" in the Language of Islam
Häftad, 2015
485 kr
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From the first centuries of Islam to well into the Middle Ages, Jews and Christians produced hundreds of manuscripts containing portions of the Bible in Arabic. Until recently, however, these translations remained largely neglected by Biblical scholars and historians. In telling the story of the …
American Evangelicals in Egypt
Missionary Encounters in an Age of Empire
Häftad, 2015
619 kr
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In 1854, American Presbyterian missionaries arrived in Egypt as part of a larger Anglo-American Protestant movement aiming for worldwide evangelization. Protected by British imperial power, and later by mounting American global influence, their enterprise flourished during the next century. …
Cultural Exchange
Jews, Christians, and Art in the Medieval Marketplace
Häftad, 2017
241 kr
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Demonstrating that similarities between Jewish and Christian art in the Middle Ages were more than coincidental, Cultural Exchange meticulously combines a wide range of sources to show how Jews and Christians exchanged artistic and material culture. Joseph Shatzmiller focuses on communities in …
Andalus and Sefarad
On Philosophy and Its History in Islamic Spain
Inbunden, 2019
378 kr
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An integrative approach to Jewish and Muslim philosophy in al-AndalusAl-Andalus, the Iberian territory ruled by Islam from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, was home to a flourishing philosophical culture among Muslims and the Jews who lived in their midst. Andalusians spoke proudly of the …
Apple of His Eye
Converts from Islam in the Reign of Louis IX
Inbunden, 2019
412 kr
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The thirteenth century brought new urgency to Catholic efforts to convert non-Christians, and no Catholic ruler was more dedicated to this undertaking than King Louis IX of France. His military expeditions against Islam are well documented, but there was also a peaceful side to his encounter with …
Rebellion of the Daughters
Jewish Women Runaways in Habsburg Galicia
Inbunden, 2020
412 kr
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An in-depth exploration of the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox homes during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesThe Rebellion of the Daughters investigates the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox, mostly Hasidic, homes in Western Galicia (now Poland) in …
Apple of His Eye
Converts from Islam in the Reign of Louis IX
Häftad, 2020
311 kr
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The thirteenth century brought new urgency to Catholic efforts to convert non-Christians, and no Catholic ruler was more dedicated to this undertaking than King Louis IX of France. His military expeditions against Islam are well documented, but there was also a peaceful side to his encounter with …
Rebellion of the Daughters
Jewish Women Runaways in Habsburg Galicia
Häftad, 2025
243 kr
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An in-depth exploration of the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox homes during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesThe Rebellion of the Daughters investigates the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox, mostly Hasidic, homes in Western Galicia (now Poland) in …