Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Foreword 7
4. Editorial Committee 9
5. Introduction 13
6. Transcriptions 25
7. Part I. The Middle Ages
8. Prologue. The “Golden Age” of Jewish-Muslim Relations: Myth and Reality 28
9. Chapter I. The Emergence of Islam
10. The Jews of Arabia at the Birth of Islam 39
11. Islamic Policy toward Jews from the Prophet Muhammad to the Pact of ‘Umar 58
12. Chapter II. In Islamic Lands
13. Jews and Muslims in the Eastern Islamic World 75
14. The Jews of al- Andalus 111
15. The Conversion of Jews to Islam 136
16. Chapter III. In Christendom
17. The Legal Status of the Jews and Muslims in the Christian States 145
18. Jews and Muslims in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem 156
19. Part II. The Modern World
20. Prologue. Jews and Muslims in Ottoman Territory before the Expulsion from Spain 164
21. Chapter I. In Ottoman Territory, Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
22. Jews and Muslims in the Ottoman Empire 171
23. The Jews of Palestine 203
24. The Jews in Jerusalem and Hebron during the Ottoman Era 211
25. Chapter II. Northern Africa
26. In Emergent Morocco 223
27. Chapter III. Asia and the Middle East
28. The Jews in Iran 239
29. Jews of Yemen 248
30. Jews and Muslims in Central Asia 258
31. Chapter IV. Relations with the European World
32. Judaism and the Religious Denominational Community in the Near East 269
33. Part III. The Present
34. Prologue. The Crémieux Decree 286
35. The Invention of the Holy Land 292
36. Chapter I. The Beginnings of the Separation
37. From Coexistence to the Rise of Antagonisms 297
38. The Balfour Declaration and Its Implications 320
39. “The Arabs” as a Category of British Discourse in Palestine 329
40. Zionism and the Arab Question 340
41. Chapter II. Confronting Nazism
42. The Diverse Reactions to Nazism by Leaders in the Muslim Countries 349
43. Chapter III. The Great Rupture in the Middle East
44. Al- Nakba: A Few Keys to Reading a Catastrophe 375
45. From the Judeo- Palestinian Conflict to the Arab- Israeli Wars 384
46. Israel in the Face of Its Victories 393
47. The Mobilization of Religion in the Israeli- Arab Conflict 403
48. The Emigration of the Jews from the Arab World 415
49. The Case of Lebanon: Contemporary Issues of Adversity 436
50. Chapter IV. Spaces of Cohabitation
51. Muslim- Jewish Relations in Israel 445
52. The Arabs in Israel 452
53. Shari‘a Jurisdiction in Israel 458
54. Judeo- Arab Associations in Israel 471
55. In the Territories 479
56. Survival of the Jewish Community in Turkey 490
57. Iranian Paradoxes 495
58. In the Shadow of the Republic: A Century of Coexistence and Conflict 501
59. Chapter V. Tense Conversations
60. Muslim Arab Attitudes toward Israel and the Israeli- Palestinian Conflict: Variable and Contingent 521
61. Perceptions of the Holocaust in the Arab World: From Denial to Acknowledgment? 533
62. Muslim Anti- Semitism: Old or New? 546
63. Chapter VI. Looking at the Other
64. Relations between Jews and Muslims in Hebrew Literature 559
65. Jewish Figures in Modern Arabic Literature 566
66. Figures of the Israeli in Palestinian Literature 573
67. Writing Difference in French- Language Maghrebi Literature 582
68. Looking at the Other: Israeli and Palestinian Cinemas 594
69. Part IV. Transversalities
70. Prologue Recapitulating the Positives without Giving in to Myth 606
71. Chapter I. Founding Books, Mirror Images
72. Qurʾan and Torah: The Foundations of Intertextuality 611
73. Arabic Translations of the Hebrew Bible 628
74. Hebrew Translations and Transcriptions of the Qurʾan 640
75. Chapter II. Mirrored Languages
76. Hebrew, Arabic: A Comparative View 653
77. Semitism: From a Linguistic Concept to a Racist Argument 676
78. Chapter III. Two Religions of the Law
79. Comparison between the Halakha and Shariʿa 683
80. Rituals: Similarities, Infl uences, and Processes of Differentiation 701
81. Prayer in Judaism and Islam 713
82. Shabbat and Friday in Judaism and Islam 720
83. Jewish and Muslim Charity in the Middle Ages: A Comparative Approach 726
84. Chapter IV. Philosophy, Science, and Intellectual Movements
85. Jewish and Muslim Philosophy: Similarities and Differences 737
86. The Andalusian Philosophical Milieu 764
87. The Karaites and Muʾtazilism 778
88. Judaism and Islam According to Ibn Kammuna 788
89. From Arabic to Hebrew: The Reception of the Greco- Arab Sciences in Hebrew (Twelfth–Fifteenth Centuries) 796
90. Shiʿism and Judaism: A Relation Marked by Paradox 816
91. European Judaism and Islam: The Contribution of Jewish Orientalists 828
92. Chapter V. Mysticism
93. Embodied Letter: Sufi and Kabbalistic Hermeneutics 837
94. Respectful Rival: Abraham Maimonides on Islam 856
95. Jews, Islamic Mysticism, and the Devil 869
96. Chapter VI. Art and Literature
97. Biblical Prophets and Their Illustration in Islamic Art 891
98. Images of Jews in Ottoman Court Manuscripts 902
99. Synagogues in the Islamic World 911
100. The Contribution of Jewish Architects to Egypt’s Architectural Modernity 928
101. James Sanua’s Ideological Contribution to Pan- Islamism 934
102. Arabic Ars Poetica in Biblical Hebrew: Hebrew Poetry in Spain 943
103. The Figure of the Jew in A Thousand and One Nights 955
104. Judeo- Persian Literature 962
105. The Music of al- Andalus: Meeting Place of Three Cultures 970
106. Chapter VII. Memory and History
107. The Jews of the Maghreb: Between Memory and History 985
108. Jewish Pilgrimages in Egypt 1005
109. Aspects of Family Life among Jews in Muslim Societies 1017
110. Citizenship, Gender, and Feminism in the Contemporary Arab Muslim and Jewish Worlds 1025
111. “Muslim Body” versus “Jewish Body”: The Invention of a Division 1042
112. Flavors and Memories of Shared Culinary Spaces in the Maghreb 1052
113. General Bibliography 1063
114. Index of Names 1101
115. Index of Places 1123
116. Illustration Credits 1135
117. Contents 1139