The Jews of Islam - Softcover

Lewis, Bernard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691008078 ISBN 13: 9780691008073

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1987

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Bernard Lewis is Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus 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.

Review:

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0691008078
• ISBN 13: 9780691008073
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280