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Iberian Moorings

Author : Ross Brann
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812297873
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Iberian Moorings written by Ross Brann and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Christians the Iberian Peninsula was Hispania, to Muslims al-Andalus, and to Jews Sefarad. As much as these were all names given to the same real place, the names also constituted ideas, and like all ideas, they have histories of their own. To some, al-Andalus and Sefarad were the subjects of conventional expressions of attachment to and pride in homeland of the universal sort displayed in other Islamic lands and Jewish communities; but other Muslim and Jewish political, literary, and religious actors variously developed the notion that al-Andalus or Sefarad, its inhabitants, and their culture were exceptional and destined to play a central role in the history of their peoples. In Iberian Moorings Ross Brann traces how al-Andalus and Sefarad were invested with special political, cultural, and historical significance across the Middle Ages. This is the first work to analyze the tropes of Andalusi and Sefardi exceptionalism in comparative perspective. Brann focuses on the social power of these tropes in Andalusi Islamic and Sefardi Jewish cultures from the tenth through the twelfth century and reflects on their enduring influence and its expressions in scholarship, literature, and film down to the present day.

A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations

Author : Abdelwahab Meddeb
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400849136
Total Pages : 1153 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations written by Abdelwahab Meddeb and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 1153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first encylopedic guide to the history of relations between Jews and Muslims around the world This is the first encyclopedic guide to the history of relations between Jews and Muslims around the world from the birth of Islam to today. Richly illustrated and beautifully produced, the book features more than 150 authoritative and accessible articles by an international team of leading experts in history, politics, literature, anthropology, and philosophy. Organized thematically and chronologically, this indispensable reference provides critical facts and balanced context for greater historical understanding and a more informed dialogue between Jews and Muslims. Part I covers the medieval period; Part II, the early modern period through the nineteenth century, in the Ottoman Empire, Africa, Asia, and Europe; Part III, the twentieth century, including the exile of Jews from the Muslim world, Jews and Muslims in Israel, and Jewish-Muslim politics; and Part IV, intersections between Jewish and Muslim origins, philosophy, scholarship, art, ritual, and beliefs. The main articles address major topics such as the Jews of Arabia at the origin of Islam; special profiles cover important individuals and places; and excerpts from primary sources provide contemporary views on historical events. Contributors include Mark R. Cohen, Alain Dieckhoff, Michael Laskier, Vera Moreen, Gordon D. Newby, Marina Rustow, Daniel Schroeter, Kirsten Schulze, Mark Tessler, John Tolan, Gilles Veinstein, and many more. Covers the history of relations between Jews and Muslims around the world from the birth of Islam to today Written by an international team of leading scholars Features in-depth articles on social, political, and cultural history Includes profiles of important people (Eliyahu Capsali, Joseph Nasi, Mohammed V, Martin Buber, Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin, Edward Said, Messali Hadj, Mahmoud Darwish) and places (Jerusalem, Alexandria, Baghdad) Presents passages from essential documents of each historical period, such as the Cairo Geniza, Al-Sira, and Judeo-Persian illuminated manuscripts Richly illustrated with more than 250 images, including maps and color photographs Includes extensive cross-references, bibliographies, and an index

Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry

Author : Zion Zohar
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814797067
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry written by Zion Zohar and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sephardic Jews have contributed some of the most important Jewish philosophers, poets, biblical commentators, Talmudic and Halachic scholars, and scientists, and have had a significant impact on the development of Jewish mysticism. Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry brings together original work from the world's leading scholars to present a deep introductory overview of their history and culture over the past 1500 years.

Jews and Muslims Made Visible in Christian Iberia and Beyond, 14th to 18th Centuries

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004395709
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Jews and Muslims Made Visible in Christian Iberia and Beyond, 14th to 18th Centuries written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume aims to show through various case studies how the interrelations between Jews, Muslims and Christians in Iberia were negotiated in the field of images, objects and architecture during the Later Middle Ages and Early Modernity. . By looking at the ways pre-modern Iberians envisioned diversity, we can reconstruct several stories, frequently interwoven with devotional literature, poetry or Inquisitorial trials, and usually quite different from a binary story of simple opposition. The book’s point of departure narrates the relationship between images and conversions, analysing the mechanisms of hybridity, and proposing a new explanation for the representation of otherness as the complex outcome of a negotiation involving integration. Contributors are: Cristelle Baskins, Giuseppe Capriotti, Ivana Čapeta Rakić, Borja Franco Llopis, Francisco de Asís García García, Yonatan Glazer-Eytan, Nicola Jennings, Fernando Marías, Elena Paulino Montero, Maria Portmann, Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza, Amadeo Serra Desfilis, Maria Vittoria Spissu, Laura Stagno, Antonio Urquízar-Herrera.

The Ornament of the World

Author : Maria Rosa Menocal
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 0316092797
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Ornament of the World written by Maria Rosa Menocal and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2009-11-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic bestseller — the inspiration for the PBS series — is an "illuminating and even inspiring" portrait of medieval Spain that explores the golden age when Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in an atmosphere of tolerance (Los Angeles Times). This enthralling history, widely hailed as a revelation of a "lost" golden age, brings to vivid life the rich and thriving culture of medieval Spain, where for more than seven centuries Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in an atmosphere of tolerance, and where literature, science, and the arts flourished. "It is no exaggeration to say that what we presumptuously call 'Western' culture is owed in large measure to the Andalusian enlightenment...This book partly restores a world we have lost." —Christopher Hitchens, The Nation

Jews of Spain

Author : Jane S. Gerber
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0029115744
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book Jews of Spain written by Jane S. Gerber and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1994-01-31 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Jews of Spain is a remarkable story that begins in the remote past and continues today. For more than a thousand years, Sepharad (the Hebrew word for Spain) was home to a large Jewish community noted for its richness and virtuosity. Summarily expelled in 1492 and forced into exile, their tragedy of expulsion marked the end of one critical phase of their history and the beginning of another. Indeed, in defiance of all logic and expectation, the expulsion of the Jews from Spain became an occasion for renewed creativity. Nor have five hundred years of wandering extinguished the identity of the Sephardic Jews, or diminished the proud memory of the dazzling civilization, which they created on Spanish soil. This book is intended to serve as an introduction and scholarly guide to that history.

History of a Tragedy

Author : Joseph Pérez
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252031415
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book History of a Tragedy written by Joseph Pérez and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise retelling of the Sephardic Jews' grim story

Convivencia Jews Christians and Muslims in Medieval Spain

Author : Vivian B Mann
Publisher : George Braziller Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780807612866
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (128 download)

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Book Synopsis Convivencia Jews Christians and Muslims in Medieval Spain by : Vivian B Mann

Download or read book Convivencia Jews Christians and Muslims in Medieval Spain written by Vivian B Mann and published by George Braziller Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negative and positive.

The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise

Author : Dario Fernandez-Morera
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1684516293
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (845 download)

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Book Synopsis The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise by : Dario Fernandez-Morera

Download or read book The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise written by Dario Fernandez-Morera and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A finalist for World Magazine's Book of the Year! Scholars, journalists, and even politicians uphold Muslim-ruled medieval Spain—"al-Andalus"—as a multicultural paradise, a place where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived in harmony. There is only one problem with this widely accepted account: it is a myth. In this groundbreaking book, Northwestern University scholar Darío Fernández-Morera tells the full story of Islamic Spain. The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise shines light on hidden history by drawing on an abundance of primary sources that scholars have ignored, as well as archaeological evidence only recently unearthed. This supposed beacon of peaceful coexistence began, of course, with the Islamic Caliphate's conquest of Spain. Far from a land of religious tolerance, Islamic Spain was marked by religious and therefore cultural repression in all areas of life and the marginalization of Christians and other groups—all this in the service of social control by autocratic rulers and a class of religious authorities. The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise provides a desperately needed reassessment of medieval Spain. As professors, politicians, and pundits continue to celebrate Islamic Spain for its "multiculturalism" and "diversity," Fernández-Morera sets the historical record straight—showing that a politically useful myth is a myth nonetheless.

The Golden Age

Author : M. Ben-Dov
Publisher : Urim Publications
ISBN 13 : 9789655240184
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age written by M. Ben-Dov and published by Urim Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seminal work of architectural reference, this study of the synagogues of Spain is a fascinating guide to the roots of Jewish community in towns and villages throughout the country. Meir Ben-Dov's thorough research into the heritage of these structures also sheds light on their influence on the construction of hundreds of other synagogues throughout the Diaspora.

Spain and the Jews

Author : Elie Kedourie
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500251133
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Spain and the Jews written by Elie Kedourie and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1992 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five hundred years ago Jews living in Spain were given a Stark choice: be baptized or leave the country. the expulsion of the Sephardim - the term for Spain's Jews - was a turning point in the history of the Iberian Peninsula and one o the greatest upheavals in jewish hostory since the diaspora. published to mark the quincentenary of the sephardi exodus, here is a complete and objective account of these traumatic events.

Sephardi Jewry

Author : Esther Benbassa
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520218222
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Sephardi Jewry written by Esther Benbassa and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-04-13 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Modified and updated version of a book that first appeared in Paris in 1993 under the title Juifs des Balkans ... (Editions La Decouverte)"--Acknowledgments, p. [xi].

A Prayer for the Government

Author : Henry Abramson
Publisher : Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Prayer for the Government written by Henry Abramson and published by Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard University. This book was released on 1999 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the experiment in Jewish autonomy in Ukraine that began with the February democratic revolution in Russia, showing how common interests between Ukrainians and Jews, especially intellectuals, led to political rights for Jews. However, the experiment was a disastrous failure. One of the reasons was the failure to stem extensive pogroms in Ukraine. In contrast to the traditional post-1927 view that has considered the Ukrainian government as the instigator of most of the pogroms, concludes that Petlyura was responsible, by default, for not doing enough to stop the hooligans, while Jewish political leaders bore some responsibility for failure to agree on Jewish self-defense.

The Sephardim of England

Author : Albert M. Hyamson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000043843
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sephardim of England written by Albert M. Hyamson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-03 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1951, this book explores the development in England of the Sephardi branch of the Jewish community, the co-heirs, with their kinsmen in Holland, in Italy, in North America and in the Middle East, of the Golden Age of Jewish history in Spain. Based on archival history from within the community, it was the first full-length history of the Sephardi community in England and describes how this little Jewish community, the first in England since the Middle Ages, grew, prospered and contributed the wealth and influence of London, and eventually producing in Disraeli one of England’s greatest Prime Ministers.

The Book of Tradition

Author : Abraham Ibn Daud
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0827609167
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Tradition written by Abraham Ibn Daud and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of years before the Inquisition, the Almohade invasion of Spain wiped out many of the Spanish Jewish communities in Muslim Andalusia ending the Golden Age of Spanish Jewry. Thousands of Jews fled north to Christian Spain, where they had to live among Karaite Jews very different from themselves. Philosopher Abraham ibn Daud responded to this upheaval by writing The Book of Tradition, known as Sefer ha-Qabbalah. This epice on Jewish history from ancient times to the 12th century eulogized Spanish Jewry and reminded readers of a once-thriving culture. In JPS's edition of this classic work, first puhlished in 1967, renowned scholar Gerson D. Cohen presents his translation of ibn Daud's entire text, as well as commentary and an extensive introduction that masterfully provides context for the reader.

Exiles in Sepharad

Author : Jeffrey Gorsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780827612402
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Exiles in Sepharad written by Jeffrey Gorsky and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic one-thousand-year history of Jews in Spain comes to life in Exiles in Sepharad. Jeffrey Gorsky vividly relates this colorful period of Jewish history, from the era when Jewish culture was at its height in Muslim Spain to the horrors of the Inquisition and the Expulsion. Twenty percent of Jews today are descended from Sephardic Jews, who created significant works in religion, literature, science, and philosophy. They flourished under both Muslim and Christian rule, enjoying prosperity and power unsurpassed in Europe. Their cultural contributions include important poets; the great Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides; and Moses de Leon, author of the Zohar, the core text of the Kabbalah. But these Jews also endured considerable hardship. Fundamentalist Islamic tribes drove them from Muslim to Christian Spain. In 1391 thousands were killed and more than a third were forced to convert by anti-Jewish rioters. A century later the Spanish Inquisition began, accusing thousands of these converts of heresy. By the end of the fifteenth century Jews had been expelled from Spain and forcibly converted in Portugal and Navarre. After almost a millennium of harmonious existence, what had been the most populous and prosperous Jewish community in Europe ceased to exist on the Iberian Peninsula.

Marginal Voices

Author : Amy I. Aronson-Friedman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004214402
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Marginal Voices written by Amy I. Aronson-Friedman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-02-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays reveals the diversity of the impact on late medieval and Golden Age Spanish literature of the socio-religious dichotomy that came to exist between conversos (New Christians), who were perceived as inferior because of their Jewish descent, and Old Christians, who asserted the superiority of their pure Christian lineage.