History as Prelude (eBook, ePUB)

Muslims and Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean
Redaktion: Montville, Joseph V.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays by seven highly respected 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739168158
• Artikelnr.: 38229205

Autorenporträt

Joseph V. Montville is director of Toward the Abrahamic Family Reunion, (abrahamicfamilyreunion.org). He is also Distinguished Diplomat in Residence at American University and Chair of the Board & Senior Fellow for the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University. He is also a senior associate in the Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations at Merrimack College in N. Andover, MA.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface: Recovering History: A Psychodynamic Approach to
Peacemaking Chapter 2 1. Jewish and Islamic Life in the Middle Ages:
Through the Window of the Cairo Geniza Chapter 3 2. Sharing Science: Jews,
Muslims and Practical Science in the Medieval Islamic World Chapter 4 3.
"The Battle of Alfuente" by Samuel the Nagid Chapter 5 4. On Muslim
Curiosity and the Historiography of the Jews of Yemen Chapter 6 5. Doctors
without Borders: Medicine in the Mediterranean World Chapter 7 6. Merchants
and Cross-Cultural Commerce in the Medieval Mediterranean World Chapter 8
7. Sufism and Philosophy in Muslim Spain and the Medieval Mediterranean
World