Marc S. Bernstein
, author of Stories of Joseph: Narrative Migrations in
Judaism and Islam
Relations between Jews and Muslims were primarily peaceful during the medieval
and early modern periods. But as the essays in this volume demonstrate, centuries
of respectful coexistence deteriorated quickly in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, leading to the tensions with which we are more familiar today.
A companion volume to The Convergence of Judaism and Islam, this collection
of essays explores the Jewish-Muslim relationship from the nineteenth century to
the present. Its contributors reveal how—and why—the paths of Jews and Muslims
began to diverge two centuries ago. Each group reacted quite differently to colonial
rule; the Palestine Question and the Arab-Israeli crisis helped to sour relations;
and the rise of nationalism added to the growing tensions. With contributions
from a wide variety of scholarly disciplines, this book offers a comprehensive
analysis of the complex dynamics between the two groups in more recent times.
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