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In this chapter we begin to narrow focus onto Muslim lands. Mark Cohen, Professor of History at Princeton University, presents a comparative overview of the conditions of Jews under medieval Islam and under Christianity. In particular Cohen discusses the contrasting political, economic and religious settings, and argues that these led to more favorable situations for Jews under Islam than under Christianity. Cohen participates in this paper in a discussion that has long engaged scholars of many disciplines, as well as other social commentators, for contemporary political as well as scholarly reasons.
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New York: Capricorn Books, 1965, especially 391–2, 410 (originally published 1946).
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Beirut: al-Madrasa al-‘Arabiyya li ‘l-Dirāsāt wa-’l-Nashr, 1980.
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Some examples: Saul S. Friedlander, ‘The Myth of Arab Toleration,’ Midstream 16, no. 1 (January, 1970) 56–9; Maurice M. Roumani in collaboration with Deborah Goldman and Helene Korn, ‘The Persecution of Jews in Arab Lands,’ in The Case of the Jews from Arab Countries: A Neglected Issue, vol. 1 (Jerusalem: World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries, 1975) 41–57; Martin Gilbert, The Jews of Arab Lands: Their History in Maps (London: Furnival Press, 1975); Rose Lewis, ‘Muslim Grandeur and the Spanish Jews,’ Midstream 23, no. 2 (February, 1977) 26–37; idem, ‘Maimonides and the Muslims,’ ibid. 25, no. 9 (November, 1979) 16–22; Eliezer Whartman, ‘Islam vs. the Jews, Zionism and Israel,’ Newsview (July 5, 1983) 12–17.
Rutherford, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1985.
New York: Harper and Row, 1984. The quotation at the end of this paragraph is from page 75.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1979. The present writer reviewed this book in the Association for Jewish Studies Newsletter, no. 28 (March, 1981) 13–14.
‘The Jews and Islam in the High Middle Ages: A Case of the Muslim View of Difference,’ in Gli ebrei nell’alto medioevo (Spoleto, 1980), II, 682–3. This paper presents a balanced and well reasoned analysis of the subject. Some of the responses to the paper at the symposium at which it was given, which were published in the volume, betray what we have called here the counter-myth of the ‘neo-lachrymose’ trend.
‘Better under Edom than under Ishmael: The History of a Saying’ (in Hebrew), Zion 47 (1982) 103–11, with an English summary.
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Cohen, M. (1996). Islam and the Jews: Myth, Counter-Myth, History. In: Deshen, S., Zenner, W.P. (eds) Jews among Muslims. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24863-6_4
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