Probing the Muslims' attitude toward Judaism as a special case of their view of other religious minorities in Islamic countries, Bernard Lewis demolishes two competing stereotypes: the fanatical warrior, sword in one hand and Qur' an in the other, and the Muslim designer of an interfaith utopia. Available for the first time in paperback, his portrayal of the Judaeo-Islamic tradition is set against a vivid background of Jewish and Islamic history.
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Probing the Muslims' attitude toward Judaism as a special case of their view of other religious minorities in Islamic countries, Bernard Lewis demolishes two competing stereotypes: the fanatical warrior, sword in one hand and Qur' an in the other, and the Muslim designer of an interfaith utopia. Available for the first time in paperback, his portrayal of the Judaeo-Islamic tradition is set against a vivid background of Jewish and Islamic history.
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-1. Dedicated and signed by Bernard Lewis to Michael Wolzer, from the este of Michael Wolzer, with jacket, tight and unmarked, light jacket edge wear. Fast Shipping-Safe and Secure Bubble Mailer!
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8x5x1; Hardcover, full blue cloth binding, 8-3/4" tall, 245 pp. Gift inscription & bookplate to front endpapers, DJ is price-clipped, else a very nice copy.
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VeryGood+ ex-USArmy-library copy else unmarked., sunned spine. Examines the origins, flowerings, and decline of the Jeaeo-Islamic tradition, set against the backgrownd of both Jewish and Islamic history. Nice bright tight clean copy of HB 1st edition. 6 x 8-3/4, 245 pp, index, notes,
Princeton University has re-issued Bernard Lewis 'Jews of Islam'. The book under review is the 1984 edition, however.
Lewis is well into his 10 decade of life. He is the grand old man of Turkish and Arab history.
'Jews of Islam' is a rich palette of Oriental Jewry, which really no longer exist, but in Israel today. Small communities remain in Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey. The large Sephardic diaspora in Asia Minor perished in Nazi death camps, on the whole.
The role of Arab Jews in the cultural life of the early centuries of Muslim expansion has not escaped Lewis' scholarship. (For a more detailed account, see Levi Provancal.)
Islam offered Jews and Christians protection as 'People of the Book', albeit with second class citizenship or worse as the history of European Jewry attest.
Jews exercised all sorts of trade from the highest to the lowest, and even some like Ramban or Maimonides reached important positions.
Jews were the transmission belt of marrying Arabic to the works of the Greeks in philosophy, science and the arts.
Lewis is good on Turkish sources of teasing out the mark the expelled Jews from Spain in the Ottoman Empire.
Decline came with the decline of the Empire, the fragmentation of the Arab world and the loosening of ties of world Jewry as Europe with lust and energy in its global expansion.
The creation of Israel hastened the existence of Arab Jews. Even today, the melting pot that is Israel Arab Jews remain a step below Jews of European origin.