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 The Routledge Handbook
of Muslim–Jewish Relations

Josef Meri
 Contents

List of figures xi
List of contributors xiii
Acknowledgments xix
Transliteration xxiii

Introduction: Critical reflections on the study of Muslim-Jewish relations 1

Josef (Yousef) Meri

1 Historical themes: Muslim–Jewish relations in the medieval Middle East

and North Africa 15
Josef (Yousef) Meri

2 Historical themes: Muslim–Jewish relations in the modern Middle East

and North Africa 35
Orit Bashkin and Daniel J. Schroeter

3 Scripture and exegesis: Torah and Qur’an in historical retrospective 57

Shari L. Lowin and Nevin Reda

4 Theology: The articulation of orthodoxy 77

Aaron W. Hughes

5 Medicine: The reception and practice of rationalist medicine and thought

in medieval Jewish communities, east and west 95
Paulina B. Lewicka and Gad Freudenthal

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6 Medieval literature: Common themes and intersections 115

Arie Schippers

7 Modern literature: Common themes and intersections 135

Masha Itzhaki and Sobhi Boustani

8 Law: Islamic and Jewish legal traditions 155

Judith Frishman and Umar Ryad

9 Philosophy: The intersection of Islamic and Jewish thought 179

Oliver Leaman

10 Education: Reclaiming the sacred common ground of Jewish-Muslim

experiences of education 195
Moshe Sokolow and Matthew L. N. Wilkinson

11 Mysticism: The quest for transcendence 219

Aaron W. Hughes

12 Communities and identity: Continuity and change 235

Ben Gidley and Nasar Meer

13 Constructive dialogue: A Muslim and Jewish perspective on dialogue

between Islam and Judaism 253
Akbar Ahmed and Edward Kessler

14 Palestinian-Israeli conflict: A contest in word and deed 271

Donna Robinson Divine

15 Muslim and Jewish women: Historical and cultural contexts 295

Ibtissam Bouachrine and Judith L. Goldstein

16 Arab nationalism: Arabness, Arab Jews, and the Arab Spring 317
Youssef M. Choueiri

17 Jewish nationalism: On the (im)possibility of Muslim Jews 331

Yair Wallach

18 Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Historical and contemporary

connections and parallels 351
Ivan Kalmar and Tariq Ramadan

19 The Holocaust: Narratives of complicity and victimhood 373

Peter Wien

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20 The Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe of 1948 387

Alexander Flores

21 Cinema: Muslim-Jewish relations on screen 401

Dinah Assouline Stillman and Aomar Boum

22 Music: Muslim-Jewish sonic encounters 429

Edwin Seroussi

23 Art: Art, aesthetics, and visual culture 449

Aaron Rosen and Yasser Tabbaa

24 Food: Muslim and Jewish food and foodways 475

David Waines and Sami Zubaida

Glossary 497
Index 505

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