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Author Lassner, Jacob, author

Title Jews, Christians, and the abode of Islam : modern scholarship, medieval realities / Jacob Lassner
Published Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2012]
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 312 pages)
Contents Part One. Encountering the "other" : Western scholarship and the foundations of Islamic civilization. Orientalists : the modern quest for Muhammad and the origins of Islamic civilization -- Rethinking Islamic origins -- "Occidentalists" : engaging the Western "other," medieval perceptions, and modern realities -- The Occidentalist response to modern Western scholarship -- Part Two. Jews and Christians : the reality of being the "other" in the medieval Islamic world. The first encounter : Muhammad and the Jews of Arabia -- Perceiving the "other" : Jews and Muslims in the abode of Islam -- Accommodating "others" : tolerance and coercion in medieval Islam -- Medieval Jewry in the orbit of Islam -- Early Muslim-Christian encounters : the Islamization of Christian space -- Muslims and Christians : perceptions, polemics, and apologetics -- Christians, Muslims, and Jews : cross-pollinations in medieval philosophy and science
Summary "In Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam, Jacob Lassner examines the triangular relationship that during the Middle Ages defined--and continues to define today--the political and cultural interaction among the three Abrahamic faiths. Lassner looks closely at the debates occasioned by modern Western scholarship on Islam to throw new light on the social and political status of medieval Jews and Christians in various Islamic lands from the seventh to the thirteenth centuries. Utilizing a vast array of primary sources, Lassner balances the rhetoric of literary and legal texts from the Middle Ages with other, newly discovered medieval sources that describe life as it was actually lived among the three faith communities. Lassner shows just what medieval Muslims meant when they spoke of tolerance, and how that abstract concept played out at different times and places in the real world of Christian and Jewish communities under Islamic rule. Finally, he considers what a more informed picture of the relationship among the Abrahamic faiths in the medieval Islamic world might mean for modern scholarship on medieval Islamic civilization and, not the least, for the highly contentious global environment of today"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-300) and index
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Subject Jews -- Islamic Empire -- History
Islam -- Relations -- Judaism.
Judaism -- Relations -- Islam.
Islam -- Relations -- Christianity.
Christianity and other religions -- Islam.
Civilization, Medieval -- Religious aspects
Orientalism -- History
Islamic learning and scholarship -- History
East and West.
RELIGION -- Islam -- Theology.
Christianity
East and West
Ethnic relations -- Religious aspects
Interfaith relations
Islam
Islamic learning and scholarship
Jews
Judaism
Orientalism
SUBJECT Islamic Empire -- Ethnic relations -- Religious aspects
Subject Islamic Empire
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011032939
ISBN 9780226471099
0226471098
9781280126215
1280126213