The convergence of Judaism and Islam : religious, scientific, and cultural dimensions /
The convergence of Judaism and Islam : religious, scientific, and cultural dimensions /
edited by Michael M. Laskier and Yaacov Lev.
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2011.
- 1 online resource (viii, 344 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Section 1. Religion, law, and mysticism -- section 2. Scientific, professional, and cultural pursuits.
The Convergence of Judaism and Islam offers fifteen interdisciplinary studies that investigate the complex relationships between the cultures of Jews and Muslims during the medieval and early modern periods. They reveal that, for the most part, Jewish-Muslim relations were peaceful and involved intellectual and professional cooperation. Eschewing a chronological approach and featuring contributions from European, Israeli, and North American scholars, including veterans and recent PhDs, the volume makes many fascinating and stimulating juxtapositions. To give one example, chapters on early Islam and the shaping of Jewish-Muslim relations in the Middle Ages shed light on the legal battles over the status of synagogues in twentieth-century Yemen or the execution of a fourteen-year-old girl in nineteenth-century Morocco. Sure to provoke controversy and discussion, this volume focuses on a period of free exchange between these two cultures that resulted in some of the most seminal breakthroughs in math, science, and medicine the world has known.
English.
9780813040707 0813040701 0813041813 9780813041810
Judaism--Relations--Islam.
Islam--Relations--Judaism.
Judaïsme--Relations--Islam.
Islam--Relations--Judaïsme.
RELIGION--Judaism--Theology.
Interfaith relations
Islam
Judaism
BP173 .J8 C67 2011
296.397
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Section 1. Religion, law, and mysticism -- section 2. Scientific, professional, and cultural pursuits.
The Convergence of Judaism and Islam offers fifteen interdisciplinary studies that investigate the complex relationships between the cultures of Jews and Muslims during the medieval and early modern periods. They reveal that, for the most part, Jewish-Muslim relations were peaceful and involved intellectual and professional cooperation. Eschewing a chronological approach and featuring contributions from European, Israeli, and North American scholars, including veterans and recent PhDs, the volume makes many fascinating and stimulating juxtapositions. To give one example, chapters on early Islam and the shaping of Jewish-Muslim relations in the Middle Ages shed light on the legal battles over the status of synagogues in twentieth-century Yemen or the execution of a fourteen-year-old girl in nineteenth-century Morocco. Sure to provoke controversy and discussion, this volume focuses on a period of free exchange between these two cultures that resulted in some of the most seminal breakthroughs in math, science, and medicine the world has known.
English.
9780813040707 0813040701 0813041813 9780813041810
Judaism--Relations--Islam.
Islam--Relations--Judaism.
Judaïsme--Relations--Islam.
Islam--Relations--Judaïsme.
RELIGION--Judaism--Theology.
Interfaith relations
Islam
Judaism
BP173 .J8 C67 2011
296.397