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The Lost Archive - Traces Of A Caliphate In A Cairo Synagogue

de Marina Rustow

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 A compelling look at the Fatimid caliphate's robust culture of documentationThe lost archive of the Fatimid caliphate (909-1171) survived in an unexpected place: the storage room, or geniza, of a synagogue in Cairo, recycled as scrap paper and deposited there by medieval Jews. Marina Rustow tells the story of this extraordinary find, inviting u
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Defining Neighbors - Religion, Race, And The Early Zionist-Arab Encounter

de Jonathan Marc Gribetz

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 As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict persists, aspiring peacemakers continue to search for the precise territorial dividing line that will satisfy both Israeli and Palestinian nationalist demands. The prevailing view assumes that this struggle is nothing more than a dispute over real estate. Defining Neighbors boldly challenges this view, shedding n
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The Bible In Arabic - The Scriptures Of The "People Of The Book" In The Language Of Islam

de Sidney H. Griffith

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 From the first centuries of Islam to well into the Middle Ages, Jews and Christians produced hundreds of manuscripts containing portions of the Bible in Arabic. Until recently, however, these translations remained largely neglected by Biblical scholars and historians. In telling the story of the Bible in Arabic, this book casts light on a crucial t
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The Religious Enlightenment - Protestants, Jews, And Catholics From London To Vienna

de Professor David (Professor) Sorkin

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 In intellectual and political culture, the Enlightenment is routinely celebrated as the starting point of modernity and secular rationalism, or demonized as the source of a godless liberalism in conflict with religious faith. This book intends to alter our understanding by showing that the Enlightenment, at its heart, was religious in nature.
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Maimonides In His World - Portrait Of A Mediterranean Thinker

de Sarah Stroumsa

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 While the great medieval philosopher, theologian, and physician Maimonides is acknowledged as a leading Jewish thinker, his intellectual contacts with his surrounding world are often described as related primarily to Islamic philosophy. This title demonstrates that he was deeply influenced not only by Islamic philosophy but by Islamic culture.
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Imperialism And Jewish Society - 200 B.C.E. To 640 C.E.

de Seth Schwartz

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 Presents the history of Palestinian Jewish society in antiquity. This book probes more than eight centuries of Persian, Greek, and Roman rule, and argues that the Christianization of the Roman Empire generated the most fundamental features of medieval and modern Jewish life.
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Mirror Of His Beauty - Feminine Images Of God From The Bible To The Early Kabbalah

de Peter Schafer

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 Investigates the origins of a female manifestation of God in Jewish mysticism. Examining Judaic history from the biblical Wisdom tradition to the Middle Ages, this work finds some precedents for the Kabbalah's feminine divinity.
The Rebellion Of The Daughters - Jewish Women Runaways In Habsburg Galicia

de Rachel Manekin

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 An in-depth exploration of the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox homes during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesThe Rebellion of the Daughters investigates the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox, mostly Hasidic, homes in Western Galicia (now Poland) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
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The Apple Of His Eye - Converts From Islam In The Reign Of Louis Ix

de William Chester Jordan

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 The thirteenth century brought new urgency to Catholic efforts to convert non-Christians, and no Catholic ruler was more dedicated to this undertaking than King Louis IX of France. His military expeditions against Islam are well documented, but there was also a peaceful side to his encounter with the Muslim world, one that has received little atten
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The Rebellion Of The Daughters - Jewish Women Runaways In Habsburg Galicia

de Rachel Manekin

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 An in-depth exploration of the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox homes during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesThe Rebellion of the Daughters investigates the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox, mostly Hasidic, homes in Western Galicia (now Poland) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
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Andalus And Sefarad - On Philosophy And Its History In Islamic Spain

de Sarah Stroumsa

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 An integrative approach to Jewish and Muslim philosophy in al-AndalusAl-Andalus, the Iberian territory ruled by Islam from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, was home to a flourishing philosophical culture among Muslims and the Jews who lived in their midst. Andalusians spoke proudly of the region's excellence, and indeed it engendered cele
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The Apple Of His Eye - Converts From Islam In The Reign Of Louis Ix

de William Chester Jordan

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 The thirteenth century brought new urgency to Catholic efforts to convert non-Christians, and no Catholic ruler was more dedicated to this undertaking than King Louis IX of France. His military expeditions against Islam are well documented, but there was also a peaceful side to his encounter with the Muslim world, one that has received little atten
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Cultural Exchange - Jews, Christians, And Art In The Medieval Marketplace

de Joseph Shatzmiller

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 Demonstrating that similarities between Jewish and Christian art in the Middle Ages were more than coincidental, Cultural Exchange meticulously combines a wide range of sources to show how Jews and Christians exchanged artistic and material culture. Joseph Shatzmiller focuses on communities in northern Europe, Iberia, and other Mediterranean societ
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American Evangelicals In Egypt - Missionary Encounters In An Age Of Empire

de Heather J. Sharkey

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 In 1854, American Presbyterian missionaries arrived in Egypt as part of a larger Anglo-American Protestant movement aiming for worldwide evangelization. Protected by British imperial power, and later by mounting American global influence, their enterprise flourished during the next century. American Evangelicals in Egypt follows the ongoing and oft
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The Scandal Of Kabbalah - Leon Modena, Jewish Mysticism, Early Modern Venice

de Yaacob Dweck

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 The Scandal of Kabbalah is the first book about the origins of a culture war that began in early modern Europe and continues to this day: the debate between kabbalists and their critics on the nature of Judaism and the meaning of religious tradition. From its medieval beginnings as an esoteric form of Jewish mysticism, Kabbalah spread throughout th
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Living Together, Living Apart - Rethinking Jewish-Christian Relations In The Middle Ages

de Jonathan Elukin

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 This book challenges the standard conception of the Middle Ages as a time of persecution for Jews. Jonathan Elukin traces the experience of Jews in Europe from late antiquity through the Renaissance and Reformation, revealing how the pluralism of medieval society allowed Jews to feel part of their local communities despite recurrent expressions of
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Beautiful Death - Jewish Poetry And Martyrdom In Medieval France

de Susan L. Einbinder

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 The studies in this book examine a long-neglected corpus of Hebrew poetry, martyrological laments written over the 12th and 13th centuries for the victims of judicial violence in northern France.
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The Scandal Of Kabbalah - Leon Modena, Jewish Mysticism, Early Modern Venice

de Yaacob Dweck

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 From its medieval beginnings as an esoteric form of Jewish mysticism, Kabbalah spread throughout the early modern world and became a central feature of Jewish life. This book describes the debate between kabbalists and their critics on the nature of Judaism and the meaning of religious tradition.
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The Church In The Shadow Of The Mosque - Christians And Muslims In The World Of Islam

de Sidney H. Griffith

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 Who were the Christians in the Arabic-speaking milieu of Mohammed and the Qur'an? This title presents a discussion in English of the cultural and intellectual life of such Christians indigenous to the Islamic world.
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Resisting History - Historicism And Its Discontents In German-Jewish Thought

de David N. Myers

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 Nineteenth-century European thought, especially in Germany, was increasingly dominated by a historicist impulse to situate every event, person, or text in its particular context. This title examines the backlash against historicism, focusing on four Jewish thinkers, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, Leo Strauss, and Isaac Breuer.
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Power In The Portrayal - Representations Of Jews And Muslims In Eleventh- And Twelfth-Century Islamic Spain

de Ross Brann

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 Unveils a fresh perspective on power relations in eleventh- and twelfth-century Muslim Spain as reflected in historical and literary texts of the period. Employing the methods of the historical literary study in looking at a range of texts, this title reveals the paradoxical relations between the Andalusi Muslim and Jewish elites in this era.
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A Jewish Renaissance In Fifteenth-Century Spain

de Mark D. Meyerson

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 Revises the conventional view that the Jewish experience in medieval Spain - over the century before the expulsion of 1492 - was one of despair, persecution, and decline. Focusing on the town of Morvedre in the kingdom of Valencia, this title shows how and why Morvedre's Jewish community revived and flourished in the wake of the violence of 1391.
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In The Shadow Of The Virgin - Inquisitors, Friars, And Conversos In Guadalupe, Spain

de Gretchen D. Starr-Lebeau

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 On June 11, 1485, in the town of Guadalupe, the Holy Office of the Inquisition executed Alonso de Paredes - a converted Jew who posed an economic and political threat to the town's powerful friars - as a heretic. This book considers the relationship between religious identity and political authority in late-Medieval and early-modern Spain.
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Mothers And Children - Jewish Family Life In Medieval Europe

de Elisheva Baumgarten

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 Presents a synthetic history of the family in Germany and northern France during the High Middle Ages. Concentrating on the special roles of mothers and children, this book advances efforts to write a comparative Jewish-Christian social history. It provides an analysis of the history of Jewish families in medieval Ashkenaz.
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