History As Prelude

Joseph V. Montville

doi:10.5771/9780739168158

Summary

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.

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Copyright year: 2011
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-6814-1
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-6815-8
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 192
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Introduction Recovering History: A Psychodynamic Approach to Peacemaking No access
1 Jewish and Islamic Life in the Middle Ages: Through the Window of the Cairo Geniza No access Pages 1 - 26
2 Sharing Science: Jews, Muslims, and Practical Science in the Medieval Islamic World No access Pages 27 - 54
3 “The Battle of Alfuente” by Samuel the Nagid No access Pages 55 - 70
4 On Muslim Curiosity and the Historiography of the Jews of Yemen No access Pages 71 - 108
5 Doctors without Borders: Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean World No access Pages 109 - 130
6 Merchants and Cross-Cultural Commerce in the Medieval Mediterranean World No access Pages 131 - 154
7 Sufism and Philosophy in Muslim Spain and the Medieval Mediterranean World No access Pages 155 - 182
Index No access Pages 183 - 188
About the Editor and Contributors No access Pages 189 - 192