History as Prelude : Muslims and Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean.
Title:
History as Prelude : Muslims and Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean.
Author:
Cohen, Mark R.
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9780739168158
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (156 pages)
Contents:
Introduction Recovering History A Psychodynamic Approach to Peacemaking -- 1 Jewish and Islamic Life in the Middle Ages Through the Window of the Geiro Geniza -- 2 Sharing Science Jews, Muslims, and Practical Science in the Medieval Islamic World -- 3 "The Battle of Alfuente" by Samuel the Nagid -- 4 On Muslim Curiosity and the Historiography of the Jews of Yemen -- 5 Doctors without Borders Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean World -- 6 Merchants and Cross-Cultural Commerce in the Medieval Mediterranean World -- 7 Sufism and Philosophy in Muslim Spain and the Medieval Mediterranean World -- About the Editor and Contributors.
Abstract:
This collection of essays by seven scholars is a straightforward narrative of real world-intellectual, commercial, spiritual, philosophical, scientific, esthetic-creative engagement among Jews, Muslims, and some Christians in daily life in Spain and around the Mediterranean. History as Prelude is a major contribution to the Israeli-Arab peace process because it undermines-in fact, blows away-the efforts of propagandists who serve governments or political movements to negate the reality of the Arab-Jewish relationship in the medieval Mediterranean. The contributors, in unassuming, well-researched scholarship have erected a wall protecting historical reality from distortion, providing irrefutable-and often delightful-examples of creative coexistence.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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