Description

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.

Table of Contents

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

Product details

Published 16 Nov 2011
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 214
ISBN 9798216310433
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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