Muslim-Jewish Relations in the Middle Islamic Period
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This book contributes to the history of medieval Jewry in general, as a basis for a comparative study of the position of the Jews in Christian Europe in the Late Middle Ages. The eight articles written by leading experts on this topic pay special attention to the following issues: the measure of tolerance of the Mamluk rulers and the Muslim populace toward the Jews; Jews in government positions and as court physicians; conversion and attitudes toward converted Jews; the Sufi (mystical) nature of Jewish leadership and its relation to the Sufi Islamic discourse; professional, intellectual, and legal interactions between Jews and Muslims. In the end, the contributions help us to sharpen our understanding of Jewish life during the Middle Islamic Period in the Near East.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Stephan Conermann: Introduction
- Body
- Dotan Arad: Being a Jew under the Mamluks: Some Coping Strategies
- 1. Synagogues
- 2. Clothing
- 3. Inheritance
- Paul B. Fenton: Su s and Jews in Mamluk Egypt
- The Magribi Connection
- The Jewish Pietist Movement
- Opposition
- Miriam Frenkel: Eliyahu Ashtor - A Forgotten Pioneer Researcher of Jewish History under the Mamluks
- 1. Scientific Historian in the Service of a National Mission
- 2. The "problem" of Eastern Jews
- 3. Ashtor and the Jerusalem School of History
- 4. The History of the Mamluks and the Theory of Decline
- 5. Conclusions
- Yehoshua Frenkel: Conversion Stories from the Mamluk Period
- Introduction
- Ahl al-Kitab and Dhimma
- The Representation of Jews in Mamluk Sources
- Religious violence
- Conversion stories
- Summary
- Nathan Hofer: The Ideology of Decline and the Jews of Ayyubid and Mamluk Syria
- 1. The Ideology of Decline
- 2. The Neo-Lachrymose Conception of Jewish History, Revisited
- 3. Jews as Agents in Mamluk Syria
- Paulina B. Lewicka: Healer, Scholar, Conspirator. The Jewish Physician in the Arabic-Islamic Discourse of the Mamluk Period
- Elisha Russ-Fishbane: Earthquake, Famine, and Plague in Early Thirteenth-Century Egypt: Muslim and Jewish Sources
- 1200-1202: The Environmental Calamity and its Human Toll
- 1200-1202: Impact on Minority Communities
- 1216-1228: Ensuing Crisis and Communal Leadership
- Walid A. Saleh: The Status of the Bible in 9th/15th Century Cairo: The Fatwas collected by al-Biqa?i (d. 885/1480)
- Commentary
- Authors
