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Jews, Christians, and the abode of Islam : modern scholarship, medieval realities /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lassner, Jacob (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2012]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.